lightroom question: sorting manual from auto focus?
I assume that the exif data for photos mention whether they were taken on auto focus or manual focus. Is there a reasonably easy way in lightroom to sort photos out based on that? I'd like to see how often I focus on the mic rather than the musician, versus how often the camera does. I would settle for something that looked at the exif data and added a tag in lightroom based on info in the exif. If need be, I'd settle for using another tool to do the job. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: lightroom question: sorting manual from auto focus?
There's an EXIF token "FocusMode" that EXIFtool can read, but I suspect it's somewhat variable as to what cameras support using it and how it's included in EXIF data. Lightroom does not display it nor present it as a sorting option, so you'd need to write a script with EXIFtool to determine if a file had it, interpret the data associated, and then generate and insert a keyword. If you save metadata in LR first, run a script external to LR to do this on your files, then re-open LR and tell it to read metadata, it will include the new keywords in the catalog. G On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > I assume that the exif data for photos mention whether they were taken on > auto focus or manual focus. > Is there a reasonably easy way in lightroom to sort photos out based on that? > I'd like to see how often I focus on the mic rather than the musician, versus > how often the camera does. > > I would settle for something that looked at the exif data and added a tag in > lightroom based on info in the exif. > > If need be, I'd settle for using another tool to do the job. > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: lightroom question: sorting manual from auto focus?
Jeff Friedl has a metadata viewer tool available as a plug-in, but it doesn't look to include AF data. He might update if you ask him, he's fairly responsive. http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/metadata-presets On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > I assume that the exif data for photos mention whether they were taken on > auto focus or manual focus. > Is there a reasonably easy way in lightroom to sort photos out based on that? > I'd like to see how often I focus on the mic rather than the musician, versus > how often the camera does. > > I would settle for something that looked at the exif data and added a tag in > lightroom based on info in the exif. > > If need be, I'd settle for using another tool to do the job. > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
