exiftool help needed

Tony-S

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• Aug 25, 2011

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I'm trying to tag my scanned images with the lens used, but LensModel does not seem to work:

exiftool -Make=Canon -Model="Canon F-1n" -FocalLength=50 -LensModel="FD 50mm f/1.4" -ISO=100

Everything else does. Does anyone know how to get lens information incorporated into these files? They are 16-bit TIFFs.

Thanks!

 

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• Aug 25, 2011

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As far as I know, LensModel is not stored as a string, but rather, as a numeric code, which gets encoded/decoded by the tool which is reading/modifying the EXIF data (exiftool or other). There are no EXIF codes for FD lenses.

I have a vague memory of finding another EXIF field that stored some lens information that could be written as an arbitrary string, but I can't find my notes right now. Sorry.

--Greg

 

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Tony-S

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• Aug 25, 2011

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If you do recall, I hope you'll post it here. I've tried -LensModel, -Lens and -LensID and none work. I don't know if there are others; I can't seem to locate such information.

 

glhs116

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• Aug 27, 2011

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Do you need to escape the forward slash? Something like f\/1.4 or use strong quotes (e.g. 'these' rather than "these")?