11-22-2022 07:52 AM
Hi all,
Ever since I got my Canon R6, Flickr won't display lensmaker information in case 3rd party lenses are attached. I see this:
while I see this on Flickr when the picture was taken with a Canon 6D:
Flickr only shows what is present in the file, so I checked Lightroom, and I see that in case of 3rd party lenses (in this case a 135 apo sonnar) that no lensmaker info is shown, only the focal length on the R6:
In case of a picture taken with the 6D, I do see the lensinformation with all my Zeiss lenses:
When I attach Canon lenses (16-35, 70-200, 100-400 etc) to the R6, it works fine:
Flickr:
Lightroom:
So I don't think creating a ticket at Flickr makes sense, since it is already missing in the Lightroom library.
After that, I thought it was Adobe reading the wrong metadata fields from the camera, but I have been using LR for ages, and it doesn't matter which version of LR I use (of course I always keep it up to date), because I don't have this problem when using the 6D.
So the camera seems the only common denominator. I use firmware 1.4.0 on the R6 due to the AF-issues in later versions (hesitant to try 1.6.0). My guess is that Canon does not fill the proper metadata fields in-camera in case of 3rd party lenses. It works perfectly fine when a Canon lens is attached, so the camera does fill metadata fields.
At least the following 2 threads confirm what I have:
and both say it is a Canon bug....With the way Canon is keeping everything close to the chest nowadays, "forbidding" 3rd party lensmakers to use the RF-mount, I would not be surprised if Canon decided not to fill the lensmaker-details in the correct metadata fields in-camera in case the lens is non-Canon....But of course that is speculation...
Does anyone experience the same issue and maybe have a solution, or must the solution indeed come from Canon?
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11-25-2022 11:47 AM
I sometimes use an adapted 45 year old lens from a Minolta film camera on my Canon camera and I do this to put the lens information into the image files:
exiftool -LensModel='Minolta MC ROKKOR-X PG 1:1.4 f=50mm' IMG_982[0-2]*.JPG
exiftool -FocalLength='50' IMG_982[0-2]c.JPG
exiftool -LensSerialNumber='3835202' IMG_982[0-2]*.JPG
I expect something similar could be done with the exiftool GUI.
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