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Harvey Posts ExifTool 13.30 Production Release
22 May 2025
Phil Harvey has posted ExifTool v13.30, the first production release since v13.25 on Mar. 13, 2025. The release is available in three formats, including a Windows executable and macOS package.
Changes since the last non-production release include:
- Added a new Canon RF lens
- Added some new Olympus ArtFilter values
- Added support for reading timed GPS from Transcend Drive Body Camera 70 MP4 videos
- Added a new Fujifilm AdvancedFilter value
- Decode maker notes from Sigma BF images
- Decode a few more Pentax AF-related tags
- Extract PreviewImage and its metadata from Sigma BF MOV videos
- Allow multiple config files to be specified on the command line (but leave undocumented for now because the config files currently included in the full ExifTool package aren't compatible with this feature)
- Removed warning introduced in version 12.60 for an undefined tag in a -if condition, but leave the 12.60 change that sets these tags to an empty string when -m is used
- Patched LensID conversion to better handle a manual lens on a Sony ILCE-7M2
- Patched to avoid runtime warning when using -fast option and reading and HEIC file via a pipe (but you will still get a seek error)
- Fixed some tag format types in the config_files/pix4d.config file
- Fixed possible "uninitialized value" warning when reading some types of Ligo timed GPS
- Fixed issue which could corrupt HEIC images from newer iPhones when writing
In addition to the production releases, Harvey posts regular updates to ExifTool to handle new cameras and newly-decoded tags. His site includes an encyclopedia of Exif Tag Names in addition to extensive documentation and links to other resources.
We rely on the Perl library to write copyright information into the Exif header of our JPEGs and into DNG files. We also use it to read Exif header information. Our Services page includes a blow-by-blow account of building an OS X contextual menu service using ExifTool and we've added a Services Request form so you can request our help with your own software development.
We've explained how to reset the capture time in your images with ExifTool in Spring Back After The Fact. And we've written about using the tool in Copyrighter Pro to add copyright information to your images, as well. Most recently, we published Using Exiftool as an Image Organizer.
And we've also developed a Keyboard Maestro macro to install the tar.gz distribution on macOS.
It's really the Swiss Army knife of Exif data.