-Lens tag

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[Originally posted by petes on 2009-09-14 19:23:23-07]

Phil,

Firstly, thanks for a great tool!  I've started to develop a Lazarus front-end calling the Win32 exe to help me characterise and sort out all the images on my hard-drive, more for fun than need.

My query is that of the -Lens tag.  For Nikon I get more information with -LensSpec, while for Canon it is -LensModel.  Is there any way to use a conditional with the -T option to allow the table to be built with the 'best' (most detailed) camera-specific tag?  If not, how about a new tag -LensFull, that will automatically select these 'best' descriptions, defaulting to -Lens if one does not exist?

Finally, should there be a space after EF-S in this -LensModel tag (EF-S17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM).  Sorry, only got the one lens to test against.

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[Originally posted by exiftool on 2009-09-14 19:53:10-07]

Try the LensID tag.  This is a composite tag which gives
the best lens information available from the makernotes for most
makes.  The only problem is that it doesn't default to Lens if it
can't get the information from the makernotes.  Is this
close enough for you?

The space problem is fixed in the current version of exiftool, but
thanks for the report anyway.

- Phil

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[Originally posted by petes on 2009-09-15 17:37:21-07]

Perfect!  I hadn't studied those Composite tags - I like the DOF and FOV ones.  Another useful one would (might) be a common anti-shake tag (VR for Nikon, IS for Canon, whatever for Sony.

Thanks Phil, much appreciated.

Pete