Scanned image problems

[chrisn]

If I have put this in the wrong part of the forum I'm sorry, please move it to a more appropriate part.

I have tried to see if there is anything similar reported elsewhere in the forum but couldn't see anything, if I missed it please could you point me to it.

I have used Exiftool (with the Exifmixer gui) to embed details of the scanner etc into the jpgs created, with the the older poor quality scanner this worked fine and the resulting images could be loaded into Lightroom 1.4 to add and sort other meta data visually.
With the new scanner Epson v330 most programs on windows and mac can see the files and open them without a problem, the same process with Exifmixer allows the scanner details to be embedded and the files can still be seen and opened with everything except Lightroom 1.4.

The old scanner used a twain driver, the new one Epson Scan software. I had hoped writing some data into the jpeg file would resolve the problem but it hasen't. Some files could be coaxed to import by doing a lossless rotation of 90 degrees, others are just stubborn.

Has anyone had any similar experiences?

Any advice greatly welcome.
(There are about 10,000 slides to do so when I get this cracked I can move forward faster, at present Lightroom 1.4 is only recognising about 1 in 3 initially, after the lossless rotate about 3 in 4, that's based on just over 300 slides)

Chris

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Chris,

Without a sample I would just be guessing.  Older versions of LR have some bugs that could cause this problem (for example, any XMP date/time value with a timezone of +00:00 will cause this behaviour).  It might help if you could provide a sample.

- Phil

[chrisn]

Hi Phil,

What is the best way to do provide a sample image, as an attachment here or a pm?


Chris

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Chris,

You can mail it to me if you want (philharvey66 at gmail.com)

- Phil