Phil: Thanks for the great explanation. I'm working with jpeg files creatred with a Konica-Minolta 7D camera. The thing that has me puzzled is that I was not seeing this problem until I started using a newer version of gimp - although it is linked against the same version of libexif. So I have been trying to figure out just exactly where the problem is cropping up.

If I sent you a small jpeg, would you be able to tell exactly what needed to be addressed so that I could pass this info along to the coders for libexif? If so, let me know what would be the best address to use.

And as always, exiftool is a fantastic program!
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Jeff