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Nevertheless, I did look into 40 or 50 photos manually, and I still don't understand why these differences appear nor when they started to appear. I don't understand how this occured to my database but I will keep on searching.Īnyway, I will give a try to your tool, Anyfilter, to give you proofs of my issues, comparing LR lens field and the one in the Exif description/Lens model for a good size of my catalog because what I described here below with different screen shots is real, but I agree, it only shows an example at a time.

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If you still believe that LR has changed how it displays lens information, we'll need a sample photo that demonstrates it - I can't find any.Īs I mentioned above in the earlier thread, ' it would be better if LR displayed in the Metadata panel the full lens information shown in the Lens Corrections panel.' The information is exactly the same for LR 6.14 (released December 2017): The second column is what LR displays in the Metadata panel and the third column is what the camera stored in the EXIF:LensModel field (which is the EXIF field LR reads). In general, the Lens field in the Metadata panel shows the contents of the EXIF:LensModel field stored in the photo by the camera. I checked a couple dozen camera/lens combinations I have in my test catalog (which has 99 camera models with 123 lenses, downloaded from ) and I found no change in how LR 6.14 and LR Classic 11.3.1 display the lens in the Metadata panel. Note that when Exiftool displays MakerNotes:LensType without the -n option, it automatically translates the number stored in the file to the corresponding full name stored in its database.Īs I stated above, it would be better if LR displayed in the Metadata panel the full lens information shown in the Lens Corrections panel. That will demonstrate that Canon is not recording the full lens name in the EXIF metadata section and just a number for MakerNotes:LensType. To see precisely what's recorded in the different metadata sections, use the '-a -G -n' options with Exiftool: Canon is not recording the full name of the lens in the EXIF metadata section or in the MakerNotes section for that photo. Whereas LR's Metadata > Default and Metadata > EXIF panels display the lens information that the manufacturer (Canon) records in the EXIF metadata section of the photo. They usually store different information about lenses.Īs explained above, both Exiftool and LR's Lens Corrections panel use Canon's MakerNotes:LensType field (a simple number) to look up the full name of the lens in their own lens databases. There are two separate metadata sections in a photo that record lens information, the industry-standard EXIF section and the manufacturer's proprietary MakerNotes section. It would also be better if LR displayed the MakerNotes lens information used by Develop in the Metadata panel and made it searchable. It would better if manufacturers recorded the same information in the EXIF fields as in MakerNotes, but after all these years, that seems unlikely. Lens ID : Sigma 17-70mm f/2.8-4 DC Macro OS HSM | C Typically, manufacturers record different information in the two sections for example, here's what's recorded for a Sigma 17-70mm F2.8-43 DC Macro OS HSM | C lens (as reported by Exiftool): Lens Info : 17-70mm f/0 LR's Metadata panel displays information contained in the industry-standard EXIF metadata section, whereas Develop / Adobe Camera Raw (at least some of the time) uses lens information recorded in the manufacturer-specific MakerNotes section and combines it with its own database mapping lens ids to lens names.