Option to filter for photos without camera info?

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July 20, 2021
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In Lightroom, i can filter to only see photos taken with any one (more multilpe) cameras. That's great. But i cant seem to find a way to show *only* the photos that do *not* have a camera assigned (e.g. hptoz imported from the iPhone camera roll that ended up there from a non-camera source (screenshots, saves from whatsapp, etc).

Am i missing some way to do this?

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Jao vdL

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This doesn't seem to be possible in cloudy Lightroom. You can very easily do it in Classic by filtering and selecting "unknown camera" but this option doesn't seem to be available in the cloud based Lightroom version.

dwarfland.comAuthor

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Yeah. "Unfortunately" (not really, but...), i've switched to cloud-based Lightroom CC ages ago, pretty much as soon as it came out.

I recall it was very basic then, and I was hoping it would catch up and surpass Classic "soon."

But, while it has many, many benefits I would not want to miss, and has gotten a lot better, it is crazy to see how – years and years later – it still struggles/has not been able to catch up to Classic, in many ways :(. Often in really simple things (like an option to not force-eject your SD after import, as I just noted on a different thread). It's disheartening, sometimes — especially since it is often trivial-seeming things like this where it continues to lag behind and that year after year simply don't get addressed.

That said, I don't regret making the switch, as I love the cloud-based approach of having my full library on laptop, iPad and phone.

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Jao vdL

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Yeah. It really is a shame, though, as I don't really find it feasible to use both, with a reasonable workflow :(. Do you mind if I ask how you do that?

I'd love to know what Adobe's official stance on this is: is it by design that the two are still so different, and the intent is to never bring CC to parity as they really target totally different audiences (if so why/how?), or it really just a matter of time and resources...

It's been a long time since I even looked at Classic, maybe I should install it again one of these days and have a play, to see what else I'm missing 😅...

The only way that works is to use Classic as your main repository. From there there are two workflows I use. One I simply sync a few collections to the cloud from Classic that I want to have available. Disadvantage of that is that Classic only uploads smart previews. That is good enough for most editing and definitely good enough for showing of images on my iPad. If I want to have the full images I simply also import them in Lightroom Cloud and they get connected automatically. The second workflow is when I travel. I sometimes have a laptop with me (if I don't take my main but somewhat big and heavy laptop which runs Classic) and run Lightroom Cloud on that. I import everything and do some edits, export some images and share online. The images will show up fully edited on my Classic install when I get back which is great. I also sometimes since I got an iPad mini which has a usb-c port only take the iPad mini. I import directly to it through the usb-c port from my XQD card reader (which is amazingly fast) and edit on the iPad. Again images just show up at home on my Classic machine. This is very convenient since the iPad is so small and light and I can work it anywhere basically. Nice thing too is that afterwards, I can just unsync stuff on the Classic install and images disappear from the cloud but remain in Classic. So this helps save on cloud space. I have something like 4 TB of images in Classic stored on a NAS at my home so really do not want to pay for cloud space for all that.

Adobe's official stance by the way is that you shouldn't use Cloudy and Classic together but it obviously works just fine. There are some annoyances such as keywords not syncing between the two but apart from that it works great for me. If only Classic could sync full raw (see here for feature request) and if keywords would sync between the two I would have the perfect workflow for me

I don't think however, that they will ever be brought to parity. A few features have been added to cloudy over time but a whole slew is still missing after many years so I must conclude that they are simply not interested in bringing these over. Some that I think are essential (but many couldn't care less about I think) are simply not possible in Cloudy such as hierarchical keywords due to the way they structured the metadata in Cloudy. Others are mindboggling they are not there (printing (including printing to file), slideshows in the desktop app, GPS-track mapping, etc.) but I think this is really caused by the audience they envision for Lightroom Cloud so are probably very low priorities.

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