Rock and Roll! I see my tags in the output. Yes. Absolutely brand new to Perl and trying something a bit more ambitious than Hello World. Running before I can walk! 4 years of PHP are no help to me at all! I put the $ symbol in thinking that I could load the config to my $ExifTool object. And in that logic, we no longer need the Image:: prefix?? The config elements seem to address a static class. I had realised a Hash is designated with a %. Sorry for that one. So for my first perl script it's been a journey. The client is going to call me this afernoon to see if we can write metadata to his assets. I will now be able to answer 'Yeah. Absolute walk in the park. No bother. ' .... ;-) Phil, thank you very much indeed. It's a brilliant tool set. Someone should actually write a book on it! Regards Mark