ses complications because it means that
the preview image pointers in the EXIF information now point outside the EXIF
segment.  This is truly unfortunate because it greatly complicates things for
image writing software.  Most other software can't deal with a preview image and
will simply remove a preview like this when rewriting the file.</p>

<p>However, as of ExifTool version 5, the preview images are handled properly
when writing EXIF information in JPEG files.  But for reasons of efficiency, the
EXIF se