As a former metadata completionist, my mind starts to dissociate when I think about my battles with EXIF metadata, vendor-specific metadata, and the way different software supports, or refuses to support, any of it.
It gets even worse when ingesting images into Apple Photos, where you have to confront papercut bugs that you know will never be fixed.
I love ExifTool. It’s one of the great utilities. It works for almost every file I throw at it. But reading its output can be unsettling. It’s like getting a glimpse of eudaimonia, only to have it rudely interrupted by the reality of Apple Photos misreading every lens in your collection.
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