Can Lightroom show full lens names from older Canon bodies instead of only focal length?
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Some older Canon DSLRs, such as the EOS-1Ds and EOS-1Ds Mark II, record lens information in a limited way. In Lightroom, lenses like the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM may appear only as "24.0-105.0 mm" instead of the full lens name, while the same lens is identified correctly on newer bodies. This makes it harder to distinguish lenses with the same focal length and can split the same lens into multiple entries depending on which body was used. Is there any way to make Lightroom show the correct lens name automatically, and still allow lens corrections to be applied automatically if possible?
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There is no way to introduce this capability into a camera body that doesn't have it. My Canon XT/350D was the same way.
You may have to resort to batch-editing the EXIF information after-the-fact with a plugin like LensTagger.
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Probably not automatically from those older camera files. Some older Canon bodies only write limited lens metadata, so Lightroom can display only the focal length range because the camera never recorded the full lens identity in the EXIF. Firmware updates generally won’t add that capability.
If you want consistent lens names, the practical workaround is to batch-edit the metadata after import using an EXIF tool or Lightroom plugin such as LensTagger. That can help standardize lens naming for cataloging, but it depends on your workflow and may not fully restore automatic behavior that relies on the original camera-recorded lens ID.
So: no in-camera fix for those older bodies; post-processing metadata edits are the usual solution.
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