Q. to Aperture gurus

[kit laughlin]

I am using Aperture 3.4.5

I am playing with an MS-Optical Perar presently—but how do I add lens info to the information contained in the 'info' tab?

The camera is correctly identified, but the lens field is blank, as are the focal length and EFOV fields. Is is possible to edit these fields once imported?

TIA, KL

 

[Arjuna]

I am not an Aperture guru. The Help files say: "Note: Not all metadata fields can be edited. Most EXIF metadata fields cannot be changed.", and that seems to correspond to my experience just now, when I gave it a try.

 

[Ario Arioldi]

I am using Aperture 3.4.5

I am playing with an MS-Optical Perar presently—but how do I add lens info to the information contained in the 'info' tab?

The camera is correctly identified, but the lens field is blank, as are the focal length and EFOV fields. Is is possible to edit these fields once imported?

TIA, KL

The lens data fields are blank because the lens you are using has no mean to communicate with the camera.
To the best of my knowledge Aperture (as LR and many other similar programs) do not allow editing exif fields other than date/time info.
There are specialized SW to do that: I use Exif Changer and in the past I have used ExifTool.

 

[kit laughlin]

Yes; I just spent an hour researching this and hoping that there might be a plugin for Aperture.

Ario, is exifchanger relatively easy/fast to use? I did check out ExifTool, but having to leave the Aperture environment is not optimal.

5 mins later: I did just use exifchanger to do this editing (did one; stamped the others); it works fine. Now I have to see whether it is worth the $40 to me. Thanks Ario.

 

[Ario Arioldi]

Kit,
Exifchanger (stand alone) is only 10 US$, I think.

 

[kit laughlin]

I will have to learn to pay more attention! Perfect; just purchased—thanks Ario; subject now closed!