07-07-2010, 02:46 PM
[quote name='Sylvain' date='07 July 2010 - 02:40 PM' timestamp='1278506401' post='872']
Hello adifrank,
I don't know other products so well but I know lightroom quite well since v1 and I think it can fulfill your needs.
Using Lightroom, you have to distinguish two types of metadata. File metadata & Library metadata :
-File metadata is written in the picture file by the camera at capture time. It's usually EXIF & IPTC metadata.
-Library metadata is stored outside the file (within Lightroom catalag files) as accompanying data and is added by the user.
You have different type of such library metadata : flag status,star rating, colour labels, keywords tag.
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One problem with this is that you don't get EXIF metadata for the images that don't already have them. This means that a) you'll need to pollute your regular keywords with things that properly belong in EXIF (but you'll have your other metadata as well), and <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> you can't use LR's builtin EXIF searches on all the images.
Can't your scanning program put info into the EXIF?
Also, metadata like film roll cannot be added as its own field, you'd have to add keywords like "Filmroll 1", "Filmroll 2", ... Unless, that is, I missed a sneaky feature for this.
-Lars
Hello adifrank,
I don't know other products so well but I know lightroom quite well since v1 and I think it can fulfill your needs.
Using Lightroom, you have to distinguish two types of metadata. File metadata & Library metadata :
-File metadata is written in the picture file by the camera at capture time. It's usually EXIF & IPTC metadata.
-Library metadata is stored outside the file (within Lightroom catalag files) as accompanying data and is added by the user.
You have different type of such library metadata : flag status,star rating, colour labels, keywords tag.
...
[/quote]
One problem with this is that you don't get EXIF metadata for the images that don't already have them. This means that a) you'll need to pollute your regular keywords with things that properly belong in EXIF (but you'll have your other metadata as well), and <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> you can't use LR's builtin EXIF searches on all the images.Can't your scanning program put info into the EXIF?
Also, metadata like film roll cannot be added as its own field, you'd have to add keywords like "Filmroll 1", "Filmroll 2", ... Unless, that is, I missed a sneaky feature for this.
-Lars