Quick Photo EXIF editor?

Much faster on the new laptop - 1sec per image, new problem though - no RAW codec from canon.
 
xrapidx said:
Yeh - company got me a new one yesterday - old one's fan went, so I've been keeping it cool with a USB powered fan - if I don't it shuts off without warning for 15min :p

Running Win7 64bit
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Laptop... hmmm... I only use a lappie for tethered shooting. All other tasks are done on a desktop with Raid 0 drive array. Makes a hell of a difference when dealing with large images!
 
I used to do that - on a desktop - but find I hardly get round to it because its out of the way - with a laptop - Can can do it sitting in front of the TV.
 
I downloaded a trial of Lightroom 2.1 - will it pick up the changes I did to the raw file in DPP?
 
I haven't fooled around with DDP much - maybe it can export to a format where LR could pick up some of it? Not likely though, each applications has its own adjustments - that's what makes them different.

Nevertheless, give Lightroom a spin for new stuff - it's really nice.
 
koffiejunkie said:
I haven't fooled around with DDP much - maybe it can export to a format where LR could pick up some of it? Not likely though, each applications has its own adjustments - that's what makes them different.

Nevertheless, give Lightroom a spin for new stuff - it's really nice.
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Yeh - I'll have to through all my photos and see which ones are and arn't done yet.
 
The big benefit comes with volume. If you import stuff regularly, tag them, and organise them, pretty soon you have a system where you can find stuff pretty quickly, do batch operations based on certain criteria, etc. Loading one or two images into doesn't really give you the power of it.

So I would suggest using the two applications in parallel for a while. You can tell Lightroom to leave the files where they are, so it can use the same CR2 files that DDP are (so you're not duplicating stuff).
 
Thanks

New question - I now take JPG & RAW photo's - I've pointed Lightroom to the directory, but it only displays the CR2 files - viewing the metadata, it has a value of "Sidecar file: JPG" - but when I save metadata values, e.g. Caption, rating, etc - it only updates the raw file, not the JPG - any way to get them to sync.?
 
xrapidx said:
Thanks

New question - I now take JPG & RAW photo's - I've pointed Lightroom to the directory, but it only displays the CR2 files - viewing the metadata, it has a value of "Sidecar file: JPG" - but when I save metadata values, e.g. Caption, rating, etc - it only updates the raw file, not the JPG - any way to get them to sync.?
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Why would you want to sync both when you can export to jpg anyway? :confused:

I know koffee has his reasons for shooting raw+jpg and keeps the jpg if its good enough but I'm curious what you gain from keeping both?

To answer your question maybe you can lift and stamp the adjustments (in this case the exif) across multiple images.
 
If I take a photo with the wrong WB,want to change something later on, etc - I still have the RAW - I want the JPGs for use in Media Center.

Exporting to JPG takes awhile on this PC - so if its already there, and doesn't need editing, it makes my life a lot simpler.
 
Dunno. In Aperture it has a "New Version from Master JPEG" action that makes the jpeg pop up as another image in the same stack. Maybe Lightroom has something similar. Googling for "lightroom raw+jpeg" gives lots of hits.
 
This is getting seriously annoying - DPP doesn't let you edit things such as star ratings, captions, etc... or am I looking in the wrong place?

Lightroom doesn't save the actual information to file.... so can't use both :(
 
for some reasons my JPGs look better when worked on in DPP...

still running a Lightroom trial to see if I'll actually switch.
 
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