How can I add lens EXIF data in Lightroom for a manual lens?
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I use a non-electronic prime lens, so my photos import into Lightroom as having an "Unknown" lens and no lens metadata. Is there a practical way to add lens information such as lens name and focal length in bulk, ideally across multiple folders, rather than editing files one by one?
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Well, if you have good scripting skills, EXIFTool can be made to do this across folders. However, there is a donation-ware plug-in for Lightroom called LensTagger that may do the trick for you.
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Lightroom itself doesn’t offer a built-in way to directly write missing lens EXIF data for a manual, non-electronic lens. A practical solution is to use an external tool based on ExifTool to batch-edit the metadata.
From the community suggestions:
- LensTagger is a Lightroom plug-in designed for adding lens metadata to images shot with manual lenses.
- On macOS, Exif Editor provides a user-friendly interface to ExifTool and supports templates and batch editing, which is useful when your files are spread across many folders.
- If you’re comfortable with scripting, ExifTool itself can also do this in bulk.
So yes, it’s possible, but typically not through Lightroom alone; you’ll usually need a plug-in or an external metadata editor.
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