Writing camera make & model

DigPeter · February 13, 2018, 03:56:03 PM

I want to insert camera info into the exif fields Main/271/make & Main/272/model. I cannot do it directly. Can it be done any other way? If with the exif command processor, could I please have some guidance on the codes to be used. Thanks.

Mario · February 13, 2018, 04:11:58 PM

ExifTool marks these fields as read-only because they are vital for many applications (e.g., RAW processors). I don't know if you can write them from the ExifTool command line / ECP. See the ExifTool documentation for more information.

Probably it works better/more reliable when you copy the entire EXIF record. Because the Make/Model of course is linked with other data in the EXIF record, including maker notes. You can copy the EXIF record with IMatch using the Copy/Paste Attributes command.

DigPeter · February 13, 2018, 04:18:07 PM

Problem is that for various reasons, there is no camera info in the metadata, so I have nothing to copy.

mastodon · February 13, 2018, 11:04:07 PM

AnalogExif will do write camera make & model etc. BUT as Mario said several times, the EXIF tag is very sensitive for changing (it was not made to be changed), after changing it might be not readable for other softwares. I tried AnalogExif for analoge, scanned photos, and the result (setting camera make & model) was good.

DigPeter · February 13, 2018, 11:17:27 PM

Thank you Mastodon - I will look into that.

Ooteboe · February 24, 2018, 12:54:16 PM

Is there another way to use some metadata fields where I can quickly see the camera-info? It would be nice that this field copies the make/model data if present and when not, I can fill in by hand. So I can see the camera-info every time in the same field, both for my scanned analogue photo's as for my digital photo's.

Thanks, Hans

Mario · February 24, 2018, 01:03:17 PM

You can store the info in any suitable XMP metadata tag. There are plenty to choose from.
For example, look into the xmpDM:cameraModel or xmpDM:cameraLabel tags.

https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/xmp/pdfs/XMP%20SDK%20Release%20cc-2016-08/XMPSpecificationPart2.pdf

Page 26.

Setup a Metadata Template in IMatch which copies existing make/model into this XMP field when you ingest new files (or later run the template manually).

Then filter by this XMP filed to find files without a value and fill in the value manually.

Ooteboe · February 24, 2018, 05:58:19 PM

Quote from: Mario on February 24, 2018, 01:03:17 PM
Setup a Metadata Template in IMatch which copies existing make/model into this XMP field when you ingest new files (or later run the template manually).

Thanks. I've made a metadata template - but can't find the code to run it automatically when I ingest new files? Hans

ubacher · February 24, 2018, 06:10:43 PM

Look at Edit->Preferences->Indexing.

There you will find the fields to specify metadata templates to run.

Ooteboe · February 24, 2018, 06:59:19 PM

Got it. Thanks,
Hans