Index: trunk/ippScripts/scripts/camera_exp.pl
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--- trunk/ippScripts/scripts/camera_exp.pl	(revision 31531)
+++ trunk/ippScripts/scripts/camera_exp.pl	(revision 31906)
@@ -155,5 +155,6 @@
 
     { # Determine if FWHM is too large to bother continuing.
-	my $command = "$ppConfigDump -camera $camera -dump-camera -";
+	my $maxFWHM = 0;
+	my $command = "$ppConfigDump -camera $camera -get-key MAX_ALLOWED_FWHM";
 	my ($success, $error_code, $full_buf, $stdout_buf, $stderr_buf ) =
 	    run(command => $command, verbose => $verbose);
@@ -162,8 +163,9 @@
 	    &my_die("Unable to perform ppConfigDump: $error_code", $cam_id, $PS_EXIT_CONFIG_ERROR);
 	}
-	my $cameraConfig = $mdcParser->parse(join "", @$stdout_buf) or
-	    &my_die("Unable to parse metadata config doc", $cam_id, $PS_EXIT_CONFIG_ERROR);
-
-	my $maxFWHM = metadataLookupStr($cameraConfig, 'MAX_ALLOWED_FWHM');
+	if (@$stdout_buf) {
+	    my $cameraConfig = $mdcParser->parse(join "", @$stdout_buf) or
+		&my_die("Unable to parse metadata config doc", $cam_id, $PS_EXIT_CONFIG_ERROR);
+	    $maxFWHM = metadataLookupStr($cameraConfig, 'MAX_ALLOWED_FWHM');
+	}
 	if ($maxFWHM) {
 	    my $expFWHM;