Image::...ol::Sony(3)

💖 NAME 💖

Image::ExifTool::Sony — bestie, this is the module that holds all the Sony EXIF maker notes tags ✨

It lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and it's literally just here to make your Sony photos make sense. 🎀

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

okay so the way this works is you don't do anything — she loads herself:

This module is loaded automatically by Image::ExifTool when required.

no use statement, no imports, no nothing. Image::ExifTool just pulls her in when she's needed. main character energy fr fr 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This module contains the definitions that Image::ExifTool needs to interpret Sony maker notes EXIF meta information. 💅

that's it, that's the whole job — she's the dictionary that turns Sony's weird little proprietary tag soup into actual readable info. iconic behavior.

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🎀 NOTES 🎀

• Also go look at Minolta.pm, because Sony DSLR models use structures that originally came from Minolta. not a drill, they really do — the Sony/Minolta family tree is real 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright 2003-2026, Phil Harvey (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

so yeah, same license vibes as Perl itself — remix, redistribute, do your thing, just keep the terms. 💜

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⭐ REFERENCES ⭐

• <http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/>
• <http://homepage3.nifty.com/kamisaka/makernote/makernote_sony.htm>
• <http://www.klingebiel.com/tempest/hd/pmp.html>
• (...plus lots of testing with my RX100!)

not me obsessed with the fact that a bunch of this got figured out by literally just shooting with an RX100 😭📷

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🌈 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 🌈

Thanks to Thomas Bodenmann, Philippe Devaux, Jens Duttke, Marcus Holland-Moritz, Andrey Tverdokhleb, Rudiger Lange, Igal Milchtaich, Michael Reitinger and Jos Roost for help decoding some tags.

y'all ate and left no crumbs, this module would be a mystery box without you 🍓✨

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💫 SEE ALSO 💫

• "Sony Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames
• "Minolta Tags" in Image::ExifTool::TagNames
• Image::ExifTool(3pm)

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and that's a wrap bestie 🎬 this page was brought to you by perl v5.42.1, dated 2026-03-31 — so go forth, read your Sony metadata, and stay slay 💅💖🦋