Comments on: Jeffrey’s “Metadata Viewer” Lightroom Plugin

By: Vagn-Ebbe Kier

Vagn-Ebbe Kier — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:34:36 +0000

Hello Jeffrey. Extremely satisfied with your metadata viewer through Lightroom4 Can you make a perfect Metadata extractor for Video clips. Seems to work already, but there must be more information. Thanks Vagn-Ebbe The hard work under the hood of recognizing and extracting metadata is done by Phil Harvy's ExifTool library. He works tirelessly (and mostly thanklessly) on it; perhaps send a word of thanks and encouragement his way, and if you have any specific knowledge how to extract something he's missing, please let him know. —Jeffrey

By: Klaus

Klaus — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 08:01:20 +0000

Hello Jeffrey,
first of all thank you for providing those great plugins.

Just downloaded the metadata viewer. I was wonderering why is the scrollbar on the left side. Usually one is looking for scrollbars on the right side of a window.

Thanks

Klaus

I dunno, that’s just how Lightroom does it. —Jeffrey

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:22:59 +0000

Do you know of a way that lightroom can sort images based on one of the makernotes fields? In particular, I would love to auto-apply a 'Camera Correction profile' to match the Creative Style/Picture Style/Picture Control. I don't know of any way to do this in Lightroom. If you have a lot of photos, it might make sense to use ExifTool to extract the info, then use LrTransporter to get it into a field that Lightroom can filter on, then use that to group photos for camera profiles. —Jeffrey

By: Enrico

Enrico — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:34:42 +0000

I have tested your plugin and I am a bit overwhelmed – but all I was looking for was shown -that is great. I could find datas, that otherwise I find only in View NX from Nikon. I there a way to adjust or configurate what is shown and what is not of interesst for me (like in Adobe Bridge)? Could be, that then it works even faster.

Thank you for your work
Enrico (Switzerland)

You can use the filter at the top to search for stuff, but otherwise there’s nothing to configure a set of items, sorry. —Jeffrey

By: Terry

Terry — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:08:15 +0000

This is a great plug in. It is giving me exactly the data I was looking for. I just started using a Fuji camera that has some settings for dynamic range, signal/noise etc. and these are not shown in Lightroom exif data.

Many thanks!

Terry

By: George K

George K — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:36:00 +0000

Bug, feature, or just me.
On the Metadata display panel, when I use the scroll wheel on the mouse I get two different speeds of scroll, depending on where the mouse pointer is: 1) if pointer is on border of panel, get normal scroll, about 1 page per click, (or about 7 clicks for the full length scroll) or 2) if pointer is in “Image Data” area, one click takes me down to the middle of the EXIF data, or 2 clicks to near the bottom of all the data. Appears to be a difference between the panel border and the area the data goes in.
This is Win 7, LR3.5, Nikon d300s, Logitech mouse.

Thanks for all the excellent plug-ins! I use several of them.

George

It’s probably a bug in Lightroom, but since I’m using an unsupported feature of the plugin infrastructure to make the scrooling area, it’s not really something I can complain about. So, let’s consider it a feature. —Jeffrey

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:33:48 +0000

Exactlly what I was looking for, except for one thing: it would be great if you could display side by side what is in the file and what is in the LR database (And even better : highlight the metadata differences). That way when a file is displayed as having been changed externally, I will know if I need to read the new metadata in lightroom or overwrite them with lightroom record. Regards Eric

That’s a great idea, but it’s not that straightforward. Some things are indeed straightfoward (e.g. caption), but Lightroom derives some items from camera-proprietary fields, and some fields are not updated even when re-read, so to do a proper job would take some extensive research and testing. I’ll keep it in mind, but the bang-for-the-buck is not worth it at the moment. —Jeffrey

By: Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:14:53 +0000

Odd – because according to the ExifTool web site – the stablization tag should be present for Canon. At least that’s my interpretation. It’s not the most user friendly site to try and work out so maybe I’ve misunderstood!

I’m sure it depends on the camera. —Jeffrey

By: Steve Hughes

Steve Hughes — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:16:18 +0000

Is there a way to view whether Image Stabili(s)zation was turned off or on for any given image, with a Canon 40D and a Canon EF70-200 IS USM Lens. The plug-in appears to display everything but that. Have I missed something?

Excellent tool by the way
It displays everything it knows about. If it’s not showing up, either the stabilization status is not stored in the Exif, or ExifTool doesn’t know how to interpret it if it’s there. —Jeffrey

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:33:14 +0000

Awesome - just another plugin that will likely become a valuable part of my workflow, thanks! Was on a shoot last night and for some reason my thumbnail preview was just totally different from a colleagues. I performed a reset of all camera settings and the thumbnails it kicked out were as expected. Interested in seeing what the differences were, so will be using this plugin to make comparisons. To that end - is there a way I could export just this table set as something like a CSV so I can do a side-by-side comparison with another image shot after the camera was re-set? The easiest way would be to download the command-line version of exiftool. —Jeffrey