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Zeiss lensinfo on Flickr and Lightroom not present with Canon R6, but present with Canon 6D

Deathchant
Contributor

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:

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while I see this on Flickr when the picture was taken with a Canon 6D:
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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:
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In case of a picture taken with the 6D, I do see the lensinformation with all my Zeiss lenses:
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When I attach Canon lenses (16-35, 70-200, 100-400 etc) to the R6, it works fine:
Flickr:
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Lightroom:
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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:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/full-lens-information-does-not-appear-i...

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/how-to-fix-lens-metadata-with-lightroom...

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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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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