The EXIF and IPTC metadata controls in Lr do not allow access to Camera Maker and Camera Model fields - but I am able to search and filter photos based on these two fields.
I request that Adobe allow access and changes to these two fields from within Lr.
When is this useful? Here are a few personal scenarios:
- I scanned X amount of photos/film from the pre-digital age and the photos are stored as "Unknown Camera" or by the name of the scanner. If I know what film camera I entered, I'd rather use that.
- I import photos from some external digital source which originally stripped part/all of the EXIF/IPTC metadata. Once again the photos are listed as Unknown Camera. I can fill this in myself.
- I edited a copy of a photo in Photoshop and that edit shows up as Unknown Camera. Once again I can fix this myself. This was more a problem in the past before I had Lightroom. Copying and editing a photo outside of Lightroom caused a loss of metadata. Today, initiating a Ps edit from within Lr preserves the metadata on the new copy.
Currently, I'm forced to open each photo in Explorer/Finder and manually edit the file, then tell Lr to read metadata from the file. This is a very long and time consuming task to perform for large amounts of scanned photos/films. Or I am forced to use EXIFTool, but this also does not allow me to mass-edit large amounts of photos from the same source.
Thank you.
I request that Adobe allow access and changes to these two fields from within Lr.
When is this useful? Here are a few personal scenarios:
- I scanned X amount of photos/film from the pre-digital age and the photos are stored as "Unknown Camera" or by the name of the scanner. If I know what film camera I entered, I'd rather use that.
- I import photos from some external digital source which originally stripped part/all of the EXIF/IPTC metadata. Once again the photos are listed as Unknown Camera. I can fill this in myself.
- I edited a copy of a photo in Photoshop and that edit shows up as Unknown Camera. Once again I can fix this myself. This was more a problem in the past before I had Lightroom. Copying and editing a photo outside of Lightroom caused a loss of metadata. Today, initiating a Ps edit from within Lr preserves the metadata on the new copy.
Currently, I'm forced to open each photo in Explorer/Finder and manually edit the file, then tell Lr to read metadata from the file. This is a very long and time consuming task to perform for large amounts of scanned photos/films. Or I am forced to use EXIFTool, but this also does not allow me to mass-edit large amounts of photos from the same source.
Thank you.
Eugene Master
Anyway, thank you again!