Hi,
I just got myself a Sony Alpha 580, and realized that Adobe LR refused to read the images. I posted a question on the Adobe LR forum, and one suggestion I got was to update the tag, using EXIFTOOL.
I've tried this, but for some reason I cannot make it work. This is what I do:
C:\bin\exiftool -ext arw -model='DSLR-A1111' TEST.ARW
I get a message that "1 image files updated", and also see that the timestamp is updated. However, when I extract the -model, it still has the old value.
Any suggestions? Or other ways I could get my A580 images into LR 3.2?
Best regards
John
Hi John,
This is due to the fact that Sony writes the model name in two locations. When writing Model, ExifTool writes only IFD0:Model by default. To do this properly, you will have to change the Model tag in IFD0 and IFD1 as well as the SonyModelID:
exiftool -Model=X -IFD1:Model=X -SonyModelID=X FILE
Where X is a valid Sony model name. Note that setting SonyModelID to something like "DSLR-A1111" won't work because it will only accept recognized Sony model names. (See SonyModelID in the Sony Tag Name documentation (https://exiftool.org/TagNames/Sony.html) for a list of valid model names.)
- Phil
Hi Phil,
Thanks for your reply.
I tried what you suggested, and now I seem to be able to update the camera model to A350 (which is the camera I've been using with Adobe LR for a couple of years).
C:\bin\exiftool -model=DSLR-A350 -IFD1:Model=DSLR-A350 -SonyModelID=DSLR-A350 *.ARW
I notice that I get a message from EXIFTOOL...
Warning: [minor] Entries in SubIFD were out of sequence. Fixed. - 2010.11.27@22.
38.54-1-jes.ARW
Warning: [minor] Entries in SubIFD were out of sequence. Fixed. - 2010.11.27@22.
38.54-2-jes.ARW
Warning: [minor] Entries in SubIFD were out of sequence. Fixed. - 2010.11.27@22.
39.25-jes.ARW
However, Adobe LR is still complaining:
The files are from a camera which is not recognized by the raw format support in Lightroom. (3)
Any ideas?
Thx.
John
Hi John,
Yes. This thread deals with the same issue (https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php/topic,2881.0.html).
It seems that the problem may be fixed in Lightroom 3.3RC.
- Phil
Great! :-) Thx.
Downloaded RC3 and patched my photos, and imported 1400 A580 photos into LR. So far this looks pretty good.
Thank you so much.
John
Adobe just released the final version of Camera Raw 6.3 and LR 3.3. This seems to have fixed all of the ARW problems.