drewnoakes/metadata-extractor

Support Sony ARW camera RAW format

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#16 opened on Nov 19, 2014

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Description

Sony cameras such as the Nex7 produce ARW files. metadata-extractor parses the TIFF successfully, but the tags are unknown or even incorrectly presented.

Note that Exiftool can process these files.

(Migrated from Google Code issue 35)

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Research direction
Study the Sony ARW format specifications and integrate parsing logic into the existing TIFF reader.
Tech stack
java
Domain
backend
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3
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Half day
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Java
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