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September 21, 2018
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Import D850 star rating on images

  • September 21, 2018
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Hi all,

Is there a way to make LR import the star rating I set on photographs on the Nikon D850? I can import the photos with the star rating on other software but LR seems to ignore it. Or is this another case of Adobe thinking we should do things their way 😕😕 (Sorry Adobe, we love you really - sometimes ) - I'm hoping it's just a setting and I'm a total Muppet for not finding it.

Cheers all,

Terry

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Correct answer johnrellis

1. In the Import window, make sure Apply During Import > Metadata is set to None:

Then try importing a never-before-imported photo. Does the problem still occur?  If not, you may have been using an Import Metadata preset that was clearing or setting the rating.

2. If that doesn't help, upload a never-before-imported photo that's been rated in-camera to Dropbox or similar, and post the sharing link here. That will help us identify the problem. Google shows some people reporting that the D850's star ratings don't import into LR, but they're not necessarily reliable.

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johnrellis
johnrellisCorrect answer
Legend
September 21, 2018

1. In the Import window, make sure Apply During Import > Metadata is set to None:

Then try importing a never-before-imported photo. Does the problem still occur?  If not, you may have been using an Import Metadata preset that was clearing or setting the rating.

2. If that doesn't help, upload a never-before-imported photo that's been rated in-camera to Dropbox or similar, and post the sharing link here. That will help us identify the problem. Google shows some people reporting that the D850's star ratings don't import into LR, but they're not necessarily reliable.

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    DotDotSlashAuthor
    Participant
    September 23, 2018

    Thanks for that. I had a metadata import set which added copyright to all the import files and that set overwrote most of the settings. Yay, thank you for taking the time to help me solve this; appreciate it.

    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Legend
    September 23, 2018

    Glad you got it resolved.

    Akash Sharma
    Akash Sharma
    Legend
    September 21, 2018

    Hi Terry,

    Lightroom imports the metadata from the XMP files associated with the images you import. If your camera is saving them in a globalized format then Lightroom should be able to import them. You may use ExifTool to check how your Camera is saving the "rating" field.

    Thanks,

    Akash

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