Tags via exif? And how to view all without a given tag?

Is this possible? Specifically I want them tagged by camera type can I autotag them somehow?

Also, if I want to see all photos that do not have a certain tag or no tags at all how does one do this? Can one do this?

Is this possible? Specifically I want them tagged by camera type can I
autotag them somehow?




No. You'd need to get into the habit of tagging on import.

Also, if I want to see all photos that do not have a certain tag or no
tags at all how does one do this? Can one do this?




For no tags at all use Find/Untagged Items [CTRL-SHIFT-Q].
To find everything without a tag, just assert that tag and then see the checkboxes at the top of the screen [uncheck "Best" and check "Not"].

Ouch! I just imported 8,000 or so images. Maybe I'll just do a new catalog and slowly import things as I'm willing to go through the trouble of tagging them.

Thanks for the help on how to view things.

ACtually, you may be able to filter by camera. Try this: Find/Imported On ... The box shows each import event, if they were pulled from a camera. Don't know what it will do if you import a mixture from a folder.

If Colin's idea does not work for you-

What is your Windows folder structure for these photos?
If there is some correlation between their location in folders and the cameras, you can find some shortcuts.

View > Arrangement > Folder location
sequences the photo broswer (photo well) according to folder location.

A-If all photos in the folder are from the same camera, click the first and shift-click the last, then drag the tag to one of the selected photos. Also can be done across folders adjacent in the view, so perhaps multiple folders can be tagged with one drag and drop. It all depends on your folder naming convention.

B-If you have multiple folders per camera but not mixed cameras in a folder, you can give each folder an Instant Tag. Click all the tags, check "close match" above the right hand side of the photos, then Select All and drag and drop camera tag.
Do this process for each camera. When finished you may wish to delete these instant tags.

This is actually more complicated than it sounds.

BarbO

You can do this in the Editor File Browser without additional tagging:

Click the More button on the metadata pane, then choose the search option>EXIF contains>camera name.

Barbara

I have primarily been using the Organizer, but this post makes me more interested in the Editor File Browser.

Will the Editor File Browser reveal more information to me about the settings that were active on my camera when I took the picture?
For example, I am looking for settings to tell what "Scene Mode" was active on my consumer camera for a given photo.

BarbO

Editor File Browser reveal more information to me about the settings that
were active on my camera when I took the picture?




There is a huge list of EXIF metadata there, but not all fields work on all cameras, Barb. Take a look. Launch the editor file browser, then click the More button on the metadata pane and choose Metadata Display Options (I think that's it--running a virus scan on the pc right now so I can't check the exact title for it.)

I kind of doubt it will include the scene mode, though--not much stuff that is proprietary to individual manufacturers.

It does make it very easy to do combined searches on EXIF, though, so you could look for all photos taken at 1/100 at f5.6, for instance.

Looks like Adobe have an interesting "to do" list when it comes to giving Organizer some of the File Browser goodies.

I've been physically organizing things by file name. Then I've started to recreate my catalogs. Fortunately I hadn't gotten real far along. I was hoping to leave everything where it was and then do all the organization in the organizer but that now seems impractical.

Now I'm trying to figure out if I should do two catalogs. 1 for the "digital negative" and another for all the works in progress or final photos.

1 for the "digital negative" and another for all the works in progress
or final photos




That is exactly how I worked with PSA 2. It was quite a reasonable way to do things. However, the availability of stacks and version sets makes it much more attractive to use one catalog.

BTW, creating multiple catalogs is a one-way street. You can't merge catalogs, even though splitting is easy.

Yeah, I've been looking at stacks. Although I tend to use them more for events than individual photos. Maybe I should be using collections?

I like the idea of two catalogs because I can easily sort out all my "digital negatives" from everything else. That would leave me a clean catalog of that stuff. It is the rest of the stuff that will be a nightmare. And if I end up redoing that stuff several times I won't screw up the "digital negative" catalog.

Thanks for the advise.