RonSmith Posted February 20, 2022 Share #1 Posted February 20, 2022 Advertisement (gone after registration) I just got my M10 (my first digital Leica) a month ago, and have forgotten on a couple occasions to switch the manual lens detection setting when I've changed one of my 30+ year old M lenses. Is there any way to modify the EXIF information after the fact to reflect the correct lens? Thanks! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted February 20, 2022 Posted February 20, 2022 Hi RonSmith, Take a look here Any way to change Lens Detection after the fact?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
jdlaing Posted February 20, 2022 Share #2 Posted February 20, 2022 Exif Editor Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonSmith Posted February 20, 2022 Author Share #3 Posted February 20, 2022 51 minutes ago, jdlaing said: Exif Editor Thanks. There are apparently dozens available. Any recommendations? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdlaing Posted February 20, 2022 Share #4 Posted February 20, 2022 5 minutes ago, RonSmith said: Thanks. There are apparently dozens available. Any recommendations? I use two. One called simply EXIF on an iPad and Exif Editor on a Mac. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomB_tx Posted February 20, 2022 Share #5 Posted February 20, 2022 Leica digital M cameras incorporate the lens edge color drift and vignetting corrections into sensor processing to create the DNG file. So while you can edit the lens details, the image will retain the original corrections. Post processing can still be applied for additional changes, but that starts on top of the in-camera changes. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikep996 Posted February 21, 2022 Share #6 Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) I know it's not what you asked but it's easy to change the lens flange to one that has the 6 bit "indents" that you can dab some black paint into so the camera recognizes the lens. I did this on three of my older lenses. The flanges are typically Chinese and around 15 bucks on Ebay. FWIW, if there is any concern re quality of the chinese flanges as far as machining accuracy, I checked the original Leica flanges and the Chinese flanges with a micrometer. There was a slight variation in the Leica flange thickness when checked in 6 different spots. There was NO variation in the Chinese flanges. Edited February 21, 2022 by Mikep996 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
insomnia Posted February 21, 2022 Share #7 Posted February 21, 2022 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) I use ExifTool (command line tool) on Mac before importing to Lightroom. Thought I'd share my command: exiftool -LensMake='Voigtländer' -Lens='Ultron-VM 1:2.0/28 ASPH.' -LensModel='Ultron-VM 1:2.0/28 ASPH.' *.DNG exiftool '-DateTimeOriginal>FileModifyDate' *.DNG Edited February 21, 2022 by insomnia 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dob3rman Posted May 1, 2022 Share #8 Posted May 1, 2022 So is there another way to do this without using terminal commands? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke_Miller Posted May 2, 2022 Share #9 Posted May 2, 2022 If you are a Lightroom user there is the Lens Tagger plugin. That is what I use. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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