Yes, each specific case is very simple: just parse tag/several tags, create table with tag=>visible value, create some rule to show this visible value or not, that's all. So, yes, your specific case may be solved in several hours or even less.
If we go down this route, we would need to support most (popular) vendors, popular metadata variations, and not only the tags that are of interest to you, but other tags that other users ask for.
Having started on this path, we would end up with a complete porting of exiftool to C/C ++ and this work will be endless because metadata is fluid and Exiftool is constantly evolving.
We don't want to go there because this will end up being another Exiftool GUI (several ones already exists), but with Exiftool completely rewriten into different programming language.
Supporting the display of a large number of metadata fields will not help the main function of the program: raw images culling (i.e. selecting good frames).
Since the frame has already been taken, it is either good or bad, but what values a specific tag have no longer matter (yes, most EXIF tags are not needed for that task too, but for common/standard tags we bowed to user pressure).
Yes, each specific case is
Yes, each specific case is very simple: just parse tag/several tags, create table with tag=>visible value, create some rule to show this visible value or not, that's all. So, yes, your specific case may be solved in several hours or even less.
If we go down this route, we would need to support most (popular) vendors, popular metadata variations, and not only the tags that are of interest to you, but other tags that other users ask for.
Having started on this path, we would end up with a complete porting of exiftool to C/C ++ and this work will be endless because metadata is fluid and Exiftool is constantly evolving.
We don't want to go there because this will end up being another Exiftool GUI (several ones already exists), but with Exiftool completely rewriten into different programming language.
Supporting the display of a large number of metadata fields will not help the main function of the program: raw images culling (i.e. selecting good frames).
Since the frame has already been taken, it is either good or bad, but what values a specific tag have no longer matter (yes, most EXIF tags are not needed for that task too, but for common/standard tags we bowed to user pressure).
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Alex Tutubalin/FastRawViewer team