aperature info with 6 bit coding in LR?

[photophile]

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I have slowly converted my older lenses ( 50 and wider ) to six bit code. I still do not see aperature setting in LR2. M8 set to lens on/uv/ir. Should it be there or is there a modification in LR that must be set? Thanks in advance.

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[jev]

you need something like exiftool and a simple script to write the lens information, it takes about 2 minutes to do it

 

my workflow is as follows

shoot, shoot some more

sort photos in Adobe Bridge by focal length and move in the different subdirectories i.e. 50mm etc.

then run a script like that to populate lens information

 

"exiftool -FocalLengthIn35mmFormat=15 -FocalLength=21 -Lens="Cosina/Voigtlander 15mm f4.5 Heliar" -DNGLensInfo="Cosina/Voigtlander 15mm f4.5 Heliar" -overwrite_original /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/xxx/Pictures/Wisc/15mm/"

 

then move photos to LR by importing those

 

This will give you a fully sortable information on lenses in LR or Aperture

Have fun

[photophile]

Many thanks. Is there no "built-in" method in LR to read the full exif?

[cbretteville]

LE reads the full EXIF info for all the documented/public information tags (fields). The lens code and guesstimated aperture is written to a block of data that is not publicly documented (by Leica). This block is called the "maker notes". Allthough all the maker notes of the M8 is described in my report from 2007, this info has not been sanctioned by Leica. I don't think adobe decodes the maker notes from any camera.

 

- Carl

[photophile]

Thank you Carl. Best. Coos