Can Lightroom 3 import photos to different folders based on which camera they came from?
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I use several cameras for different purposes and have traditionally organized files into separate folders for each camera. I’m trying to switch from manually copying files in Windows Explorer to importing through Lightroom 3. I can choose a destination during import, but I don’t see an automatic way to change the destination by camera. Is there a way to set this up, or should I stop organizing by camera and use Lightroom’s normal folder/catalog workflow instead?
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You could simply create a different import preset for each camera, and customize the import location and metadata settings for each.
This is also very useful if you have multiple photographers (husband and wife for instance) sharing a catalog.
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Yes—use separate import presets for each camera. In Lightroom 3, you can create a different import preset with its own destination folder and any metadata settings you want, then choose the appropriate preset when importing from that camera.
That won’t fully automate folder choice purely by detected camera unless you select the matching preset, but it does let you keep your per-camera folder organization while using Lightroom’s import workflow.
This approach is also handy when multiple photographers share one catalog, since each preset can point to a different destination and apply different metadata.
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