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charlesq57094644
charlesq57094644
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April 30, 2018
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Identical photos appearing from two different cameras

  • April 30, 2018
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I took photos of an event with two cameras. I downloaded the photos to the same Lightroom CC catalog and some of the photos are appearing twice. The EXIF metadata from one photo indicates it was taken with Camera A and the metadata for the second identical photo shows it was taken with Camera B at a different time. The photos LOOK absolutely identical in every way. I'm using Lightroom CC 7.3.1 on a Mac with OS High Sierra 10.13.4. This is very disturbing since some photos I took are evidently not appearing. The "clones" are appearing rather than the photo actually taken.

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    john beardsworth
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    john beardsworthCommunity Expert
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    April 30, 2018

    What were the preview settings upon import? Try taking a few problem images and run the command Metadata > Read Metadata from FIle, and then generating 1:1 previews.

    charlesq57094644
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    April 30, 2018

    Thanks, I performed the Read Metadata from File and generated new previews. Now I have two identical photos, as before, but both photos also have identical metadata as if they were taken by the same camera at the exact same time.

    I may download all photos to a different catalog to see if I have the same problem.

    charlesq57094644
    charlesq57094644Author
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    April 30, 2018

    Ok, I downloaded all photos to a different catalog without any problems.

    Here is what happened in the original download. First photos downloaded were from a Canon 7D mk II. These downloaded fine. Second set of photos downloaded were from a Canon 5D mk IV. NONE of the previews of the 5D photos appeared. Lightroom simply duplicated some of the 7D photos but added the EXIF metadata from the 5D photos. I have never had this happen before.

    This appears to be a bug that can be very detrimental to a photographer's business. If I had not checked the downloaded files carefully and formatted my CF cards I would have lost several hundred photos taken for an important client.

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