Hello everyone, I am working with an array of 120 Sony A7iii and am looking for a way to set presets up based on serial numbers.
I have done this in the past with Cannon and Nikon but after recently moving over to Sony I was surprised by the lack of serial numbers in the metadata.
I managed to find some forum posts that said using the following script could copy the Internal Serial Number and paste it into a Serial Number row for the EXIF.
exiftool "-SerialNumber<InternalSerialNumber" -tagsfromfile "c:\your_folder\*.jpg"
exiftool "-SerialNumber<InternalSerialNumber" *.ARW
Both of these will give me an error creating the file.
I have used ARW, JPG, and DNG files but none of them give any different results.
Does anyone know of a way to get this working? If not is there any useful ways to automate presets to individual cameras that do not have a serial number to identify them by?
Thanks!
It helps when you tell us what the error is. Copy/paste the full command and output from the command line.
In the first case, I can guess that it's "No file specified" or something like that because you're using a -TagsFromFile option (https://exiftool.org/exiftool_pod.html#tagsFromFile-SRCFILE-or-FMT) without specifying what files you want to copy from, so it uses "c:\your_folder\*.jpg", which leaves no files to actually process.
There's nothing wrong with the second command, so it should work unless the InternalSerialNumber doesn't exist or there is a problem with the file. Use the command in FAQ #3 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q3) to see if InternalSerialNumber exists in the file or if there's a different tag you might use.