How can I change the Camera Make & Model metadata

[sanphotgn]

Do you (or anyone else) know if custom fields can even be read or accessed (through plugins) by Adobe Bridge or Lightroom?

Phil

> Lightroom

As far as I know, no. The custom XMP is not imported into the catalog (database).

> Adobe Bridge

You can create custom file panels to display the custom XMP.

[fbungarz]

> Lightroom
As far as I know, no. The custom XMP is not imported into the catalog (database).

Actually, it would in theory be possible, if someone wrote a custom metadata plugin. Something similar to Jeffrey Friedl's plugin:
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodie ... ta-presets
As far as I know that plugin at least displays (custom) metadata.

> Adobe Bridge
You can create custom file panels to display the custom XMP.

That is possible indeed, but requires a little bit of programming skills. You'd need Adobe's metadata toolkit: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/xmp.html

[PhilBurton]

Frank,

I took a very quick look at the Adobe materials. They are written for a professional programmer, which I am definitely not. Back in my university days and early in my career, I did programming in Fortran and PL/1 for engineering applications for myself and team members. But that was a long time ago.

I suppose I can try to modify Jeffrey's plugin to actually write the custom metadata to the Lightroom catalog, "when I get around to it."

Phil

[Hert]

Custom fields are stored in the metadata as standard XMP. Any tool that calls itself an XMP supporting tool wilk be able to read the info. If it displays it or does anything with it is up to the tool.

[sanphotgn]

The Metadata-Viewer Preset Editor is very powerful.

From the plugin's web page: "this plugin incorporates the ability to include the custom metadata from other Lightroom plugins in your presets." Emphasis added. This is different than custom fields stored in the metadata of an image file or sidecar file as standard XMP.

Plugins can create information, which can be seen and used by other plugins. The Metadata-Viewer Preset Editor allows one to see other plugin information that may be related to a specific photo. My guess: plugin information is not written to the Lightroom catalog (database). In my test: the plugin information isn't written to the sidecar file (.xmp).

From the plugin's web page: "To be clear: this plugin does not allow you to edit photo metadata itself. It merely allows you to configure the list of items that Lightroom displays."