Hi you all,
I am using Adobe Bridge a couple of years now in order to sort and store my pictures. To get a short overview for each picture I use two exif tags:
exiftool -q -q "-description<lensModel" "-headline<${focallength} | ${shutterspeed} | f ${fnumber} | ISO $exif:iso" -overwrite_original D:\*.CR3 D:\*.RAF
For both file types the information seems to be stored correctly in the exifs. And fpr all Canon raws (CR3) this information (description and headline) is shown in Adobe Bridge. But for the Fujifilm raws (RAF) the exifs show the correct information in the exifs but not in Bridge. In Bridge the information is not shown at all.
By the way: In Windows 10 the Explorer-Details have the same behavior as Bridge. CR3-information is displayed, RAF not. Anyone any idea?
RAW files are proprietary and pretty much non-standard by definition. Camera companies don't always make the format public, which leads to project like DCraw where people try to decipher the image to use in other programs. Even the same RAW file type can have a different format depending upon the camera that took it. That is why changing the Model or Make in a RAW file can make it unrenderable (see FAQ #8 (https://exiftool.org/faq.html#Q8)).
Adobe products should be able to read most RAW file types, as that is a core part of their business. But the do not write data directly into them, instead using XMP sidecars. So for Bridge, make sure you have an up to date version and check to see if there is a XMP sidecar which Bridge may be reading from instead of from the RAW file itself.
For Windows, you can see if the camera company has a codec available that will allow Windows to read the files. If there isn't or if there is but it doesn't pass on the metadata, then there's really nothing you can do about it.
Hi StarGeek,
thanks for your reply and the explanation. As I searched the web a bit more I learned that Fuji raws are somewhat "special" and not easy to handle regarding the metadatas. I probably will just change my exiftool workflow and develop and export the raws first and edit the exif afterwards. This will work as well.