Copying Nikon-Tags

[thow68]

I am digitizing pictures using Vuescan and a Nikon Coolscan V. The results are .jpg, .tif or .dng. Since my analog-camera (Nikon F6) is able to record some data like date, time, exposure time, fnumber, etc. as well as the used lens, I would like to write these information into the scanned images. For exif-tags this is no problem, but especially for nikon:lensidnumber etc. it is not possible (e. q. exiftool -nikon:lensidnumber=51 pic.jpg) doesn't work because the destination files has no tag-group nikon.

Is there any way / work-around to write the Nikon tags into my scanned pictures?

[Phil Harvey]

The only way to write Nikon tags is to copy the entire MakerNote section from another image then modify what you want.  I don't recommend doing this because most tags would be incorrect and modifying the ones you want would be tedious.

Instead, I suggest writing EXIF:LensModel for the lens information.

- Phil