Filter by Camera Make

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December 28, 2023
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Is there a way to filter by camera make (e.g. Canon, Nikon or Sony) rather than individual camera models?

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MGW2010Author

Participant

Am I correct that Lightroom does not store the camera make in the SQLite database?

johnrellis

Legend

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No, LR does store the camera make in the catalog. You can see it in the Metadata panel:

The various methods posted previously for searching make all access the Camera Make field in the catalog.

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richardplondon

Community Expert

The only exception may be where a photo has passed through some kind of postprocessing along the way, which has not preserved this (and similar) information relating to the original taking of the photo. For example, some external utilities may strip this off - or it can be omitted from inclusion in an export - or in Photoshop for example if you made a blank new file, then pasted a photo in as a new layer, the resulting saved PS document would not hold any shooting information metadata relating to that photo.

So it does depend on the prior lifecycle of whatever image instance you are looking at.

Conrad_C

Community Expert

Another similar way is to create a Smart Collection with a rule with the criteria “contains” “Canon”.

Either way, you can save it for future use. The filter can be saved as a named filter preset, and the Smart Collection of course becomes named and saved in the Collections panel.