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P: allow user to edit Camera & lens serial numbers in EXIF

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
December 20, 2023
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Hi,

There are many cases where allowing the user to edit the Camera or lens in EXIF make sens.

For example:

The user wants to add the information to photos they scanned
The user uses a DSLR with an adapter to use lens of another brand, and it is not recognised
The user wants to add this information to videos shot with their DSLR (most cameras do not include the information in the exif for videos, like MP4, but the information is still important to have)

I know there are weird/complex solutions like ExifTool or Capture Time to Exif to edit the exif of a video or an image but I do not want an extra tool that I need to trust, to buy and to learn how to use, when I'm paying so much money to Adobe.

So my request: Let me edit the Camera and Lens.

Thank you

RyfeAuthor

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@JohanElzenga OMG… you're right!

thank you very much !

Remove and import is a bit of a pain, but it is worth it.

thanks again!

Ryfe

JohanElzenga

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It's possible for video as well, but 'Read Metadata from Files' does not seem to work for video. After you changed the video metadata, you will have to remove the video from the catalog and import it again.

-- Johan W. Elzenga

RyfeAuthor

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Tools like Lenstagger don't work for videos, so it is not possible to change the camera model of a video even with this tool 😕😕

I still think that this Exif data point could be edited via LRC, like so many other data points.

RyfeAuthor

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@Per Berntsen Thank you very much for the link to that tool. Really appreciate it. I will look into it in hope that can help me out. I hope it will be easier than the other free tools I tried. And it comforts me in my opinion that LRC should allow the user to it, without relying on third parties.

@Keith Reeder Thank you for your valuable input. Let's agree to disagree.

Add/Edit metadata is a basic feature. Sorting by camera as well. The cases I mentionned shouldn't be out of the general user experience.
Photographers who use adapters or scan their films are definitely part of the core users, not niche.
Users who manage their videos with LRC are not a niche crowd either. Also, vidéos from Apple or DJI devices add properly the camera exif on videos, but Samsung, Sony, Canon, etc, not. Users should be able to simply correct that.
It is NOT easy to achieve. Maybe you're a genius, maybe I'm a moron, but I wasted a lot of time unsuccessfully trying those "easy solutions". (Also, when a user says that a solution is complex, I am not sure what you think you achieve by arguing it is not. obviously they tried, they failed and legitimely look for a simpler and, hopefully, integrated solution)

Keith Reeder

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"There are many cases where allowing the user to edit the Camera or lens in EXIF make sense. "

Makes sense as a LightRoom function? I disagree. It's pretty much the definition of "niche", especially - as Per points out - when it's easy to achieve using (often free) dedicated - and not "weird/complex" - software.

Per Berntsen

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The free Lenstagger plugin will do what you want.

You can add information about camera, scanner and film in the Analog film options tab.

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