Looking for sample RAW photos from many camera manufacturers for testing EXIF extraction

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Hello,

I’m writing custom software for fast photos renaming GitHub - matrixik/sort-camera-photos: No configuration camera photos sorting

I’m looking for sample RAW photos from many camera manufacturers for testing and adding support to underlying library I use for extracting EXIF data: https://github.com/evanoberholster/exiftool
It’s new and support for many RAW formats is not implemented.

I know there are exif2, exiftool.org or others but I want my tool to be statically linked and self contained so I (or user) could download it to new/clean system and it should work without need to install anything else. Also using only main programing language (Go) for everything make cross compilation to other systems from Linux easy.

I need this image samples to have proper license allowing to store them in library repository as test photo samples.

Do you know if there is any place where I can find that?

Maybe they could be somehow striped down from image data and contain only EXIF data in proper format so they use a lot less place on disk?

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You’ll certainly want to check out https://raw.pixls.us which is our collection of raw files for the purpose of testing raw processing programs. It is maintained by @andabata and @LebedevRI.

The license should allow you to do what you need to do.

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If you want it all :slight_smile: https://raw.pixls.us/data or use rsync. Complete dataset is about 65GB

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Great, but I don’t think I will add them all to git repo as test samples :stuck_out_tongue:

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Add them yo your CI test and cache them :wink:

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Hmmm, that’s actually quite good idea but no GitHub Actions nor Travis offer this much space for caching. But thanks for the idea.

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I see the author of said library (which is less than a month old) has named it “Exif Tool”. I can’t imagine a more misleading name, given ExifTool has been around forever. Personally I think that’s really quite antisocial. But hey, I’m most definitely not Phil Harvey. Perhaps Phil feels differently.

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