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+**Update -- May, 2024**
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+- **WARNING**: Some of these tools may break due to internal changes in `exiftool` (`perl-image-exiftool`). Tools work as intended at least with `exiftool` version `11.70` but not with `12.76`.
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 # Linux camera tools for Canon DSLR owners
 
 - main target group: