P: Import only pictures with "lock" from camera

I just found another plugin that might help someone, I have not tried it yet myself though.

http://www.beardsworth.co.uk/lightroo...

I'm glad somebody merged these topics. Funny the one above never showed up in my searches, though...I kinda figured I wasn't the only one with this idea!

Seems with LR there's always a 3rd party tool to get you what you need!

One problem with LR is the RAW-to-DNG conversion process does not respect the "read-only" status of the file. So Adobe would have to address that issue as well.

I'll look into RC Importer; never heard of that one before. ChangeManager sounds like it would work -- if I didn't use DNG! Oh well.

On most makes / models of digital cameras there is a way to "lock" an image. For most people the point is to lock their favorite images from being deleted -- thus what you have is essentially a selection of picks. When I show a client an image on-camera and they tell me they like it, the first thing I do on my Nikons is hit the lock button. Then after import, I review all the images for any locks and mark it as a Pick in LR.

The lock flag is set in the image metadata, but LR does not (as far as I've found) expose this portion of the metadata. I found a 3rd party plugin that does, but it's cumbersome so workflow is not improved by using it.

What I'm asking is for (A) Adobe to expose the flag setting in the metadata and taking it a step further (B) offer an option to automatically set an LR flag -- pick, star rating, or color -- during import of any "locked" images.

Seems like it should be simple and would save a lot of time for some peoples' workflow. Well, mine at least. 🙂

One way to import only read-only photos is to use a plugin for importing.

e.g. RC Importer, but it would take a lua tweak to get there. Lemmeno if you want to go that route but lack the know-how to make the customization.

Another thing that might help:

ChangeManager - has a menu function to select all read-only photos, post-import.

Rob

This is a great idea that I really miss and it should not be so hard to implement!