P: Ability to see EXIF data

I use Rob Cole‘s ExifMeta plug-in. Although it‘s several years old it still works great.

Hi Robert.

It is clear that Adobe is not going to satisfy your request, so you might want to think about how to get what you want.

I need to access the "macromagnification" data, which is a proprietary field put in raw files by Canon.

I first move that data to a field that is easily accessed—in my case the "event" metadata, which I don't otherwise use—with exiftool:

$ exiftool -overwrite_original_in_place -tagsFromFile %f.CR2 "-event<Macromagnification" *.xmp

Then I use Jeffrey's Data Explorer plugin to create collections for each value of the event field, and I assign a unique keyword to the files in each of these collections. It is sort of a PITA, but it works.

You can run the exiftool command from the command line, or you can get John Beardsworth's Capture Time to EXIF plugin to run the command from within Lightroom.

As they say, "It is better to light a candle..."

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In the latest version of Lightroom Classic this feature is not available. Is it that difficult to add this to the exif menu ? 

Is there any information available whether Adobe plans to add this feature, especially the extended exifs for Olympus cameras, into the next Lightroom release ? Up to now, it has not been added, although there were several updates in between.

BR Robert

Hello,

I would also like to have additional Olympus Exifs visible in Lightroom. The info drive is very interesting to determine whether the image is part of a hdr or bracketing.



Best wishes Robert

+1 vote for embedded ICC profile

There’s quite a lot of metadata in a document that Photoshop can show (File info) that isn’t visible in LR which would be nice. There’s all kinds of useful data found in File Info>Advanced that isn’t visible in LR. The Adobe Photoshop Properties for examples provides the embedded ICC profile that would be useful to see somewhere in LR (and to use with a Smart Collection).

Unfortunately not all EXIF-fields are available in the library. (Only via plug ins such as Jeffrey’s “Metadata-Viewer Preset Editor”)

I would love to have Maker notes exiftool can as you said Rob, so I would expect lightroom could as well. As for other EXIF field I can give examples:
GPS: I cannot see the bearing, ....
EXIF comments are not there
microsoft XMP to tag faces is not there
,...
even if it is not a full featured DAM if lightroom could at least display all the available metadata so that it can be searchable, then it would be great.
Also it would be great to be able to edit most of them such as the time ,...

Anyway thank's for listening

Quote: "Maker notes are proprietary, and almost entirely undocumented - that makes them kind of difficult to support correctly. We can try, but we may not succeed where the manufacturer is going out of their way to make the data inaccessible."

- I think in the cases where the manufacturer is truly going out of their way to make the data inaccessible, then forget it - but in the case of Nikon, its plain text data in standard tif metadata format - dunno 'bout the others...