Analogue Support App?

[Stanbey]

Hi folks,

I've been trying to figure out a way of making the exif data on my scanned films accurate with minimal effort. I use a paper notebook and I have previous tried a smartphone app for manually entering this data; but these processes are all flawed in some way. Ideally, I want an app that I can use to quickly snap a copy of the photo with my phone *when* I take a shot with a real camera. Essentially, what I want it to do is:

* Let me select, before taking the shot, which camera, lens and film I'm using.
* Tag the shot with EXIF data describing the selected camera, lens and film as well as time, date, geolocation, etc.
* Let me tell the app that I have finished/changed a roll of film and then it should put all the shots taken on that roll into a separate folder.
* Upload these per-film folders to Google Drive

Then, when I have developed and scanned the roll I can use exiftool to copy the exif data from the "snaps" onto the real images.

Before I start writing such an app does anyone know if anything like this already exists?

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Rich

 

[MFstooges]

App?
I believe this is done with picture management software. Mainly on PC.

 

[Molli]

@team_player has written my favourite Android App:

Exif Notes - Apps on Google Play

Exif Notes let's you quickly save important notes when shooting with film.

play.google.com

I think they've got your entire wishlist covered. Here's a thread here on Photrio covering the release and upgrades, requests and glitches.

New app for making "exif notes"

As the app discussed in this thread is Google only, I hope nobody means if I ask you the name of the app for iOS. sorry, I missed your post. I use "PhotoEXIF", but the developer hasn't updated it in a long time. It has a few issues, and it doesn't work well with large format, which is most...

www.photrio.com

No affiliation, I just think it's pretty perfect, especially when I finally got my butt into gear to have exiftool parse the files on my computer - I was using it purely for record keeping for quite a while there. One thing not on your list - you can add a reference photo to each entry on - useful for colour corrections, lighting conditions, studio light set ups, etc.

Hope this helps! (A belated "Welcome to Photrio to you, too! ☺)

 

[Stanbey]

App.

The PC exif software is fine for updating the data on the scanned shots. The app is for capturing that data in the first place. I.e. instead of writing down in a notebook the camera, lens, film, date/time, geo-location, f-stop, shutter speed, focus-distance, subject, etc. you just pull out the phone and make the same shot with the app. You then have a jpeg with exactly the right exif data to copy onto the scanned photo later. If the photos are organised into nice folders, one per roll, then this is easy to automate.

 

[Stanbey]

Thanks for the Exif Notes recommendation. I have used that before but I cannot remember why I didn't get on well with it and then I had forgotten about it. I'll try it again.