Re: Endless gamma in eXIf 2017-0119

Glenn Randers-Pehrson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.graphics.png.general
Message-ID <CA+PdXcspO-2pO+_v-kQy=pkhF8ULWQCJG6vbnPU72o7qBraxVw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 8:34 AM, Pavel Zlatovratskii <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I think yes, but this will cause remove of still valid camera
> metadata(like lens model, etc).
>
> Such dilemma caused by eXIf's 'image header within image header' nature...
>
> That's why using EXIF is good only as fast solution, more PNG-native way
> to save data from EXIF still required.
>

Besides the hex-encoded-Exif-in-zTXt, ImageMagick writes much of the
Exif information in separate tEXt or zTXt chunks, each containing the
information from one Exif tag.  But I don't think there is any attempt to
read those back in to  a new image; they are just informative.  It's a
bit of a mess, with redundant storage of various pieces of information,
that can become invalid. I haven't actually seen the problem with gamma,
but I have seen problems with Exif "density" conflicting with PNG "pHYs"
and with the ImageMagick convert "-resolution" option.

Glenn

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