Changing lens information in EXIF

[eritho]

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I use five M lenses, all uncoded, and of course, like most others, I mostly forget to change lens info in the menu when changing lens.

Is there any way of changing this info in the EXIF file afterwards?

Normally I notice this when opening the picture in Lightroom, but I can't find a way to change it in LR.

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

[Luke_Miller]

This is what I use.

 

http://www.essl.de/wp/software/lenstagger-lightroom-plugin/

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[geotrupede]

if you have access to a command line interface and are happy to play with it, then exiftool is a great program

the good thing is that you could write a script and change many photos at once based on any formula you needed

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

g

[eritho]

Thank you but exiftool looks too complicated for "an old man" like myself :-)

[jdlaing]

Do you use Mac OSX?

[eritho]

Do you use Mac OSX?

No, PC wih Win10.

[jaapv]

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In that case Windows Explorer is a good tool. Go to Properties and click the Details tab. You can now edit a most of the metadata

 

Otherwise try Picasa.

[eritho]

In that case Windows Explorer is a good tool. Go to Properties and click the Details tab. You can now edit a most of the metadata

 

Otherwise try Picasa.

Thank you Jaap.

I know explorer works for changing in jpg files but I can't find a way to change dng files.

Is it possible too?

[terrycym]

Thank you Jaap.

I know explorer works for changing in jpg files but I can't find a way to change dng files.

Is it possible too?

 

Have you installed Adobe's DNG codec?

[Guest )-(]

This is what I use.

 

http://www.essl.de/wp/software/lenstagger-lightroom-plugin/

 

+1. This is all you need.

 

It's incredibly easy to use. No Command Lines or Coding. 

It's consistent over time as you can apply exactly the same EXIF everytime you use that lens.

It's easy to incorporate into a workflow. You just run the simple process after import to Lightroom.

 

I'm not sure why you'd want to manually change every single image in Windows Explorer over an integrated bulk solution like LensTagger.

 

http://www.essl.de/wp/how-to-use-lenstagger/

[jaapv]

In that case have a look at PhotoMe, although I am not quite sure whether it supports all kinds of DNG files.

I used it  a lot before I moved to Mac, quite some years ago, and it worked fine.

[jmahto]

Lenstagger Lightroom plugin works great but only on the master copies. It doesn't do anything to the virtual copies metadata that are already created.

 

Anybody found a solution to that? Don't ask me to delete and create virtual copy again. It is too much work.

Edited October 1, 2015 by jmahto