CR and IPTC data

Are there any plans to fix ACR so it doesn't destroy the IPTC data that
might be in the RAW file?

IPTC data such as caption info, copyright, credit etc. are widely used in
the news business and there are several software packages that allow you to
IPTC caption the RAW files (Breezebrowser, DigitalPro for two). But then if
you use ACR to extract your images, you lose your IPTC data.

David Madison

You would do better to complain to those companies who are trying to embed IPTC metadata in a non-standard wrappers in a raw files. The only metadata standard right now in raw files is for EXIF metadata. The public tags of EXIF are read by Camera Raw.

Hi Jeff,

I did not know there was something non-standard about this approach.

Frankly from a user standpoint, the whole issue of non-standard this,
proprietary that is a nightmare which prevents us from finding a simple
workflow that works for the entire process. We want to caption our RAW
files once so the data carries through to all archived copies, all extracted
copies without data re-entry. We want to extract from the RAW files with
control and automation available. We want to view images expediently. We
want to be able to edit digital images in a manner as efficient as what can
be done with slides on a light table (Adobe, are you listening? There is a
major product gap here. Call it PhotoEdit.). And we don't really want to
have to use five different software packages to do it.

I'd like to get all these camera company engineers together for a little
discussion session about the real world!

David,

I don't disagree that "standards" can be a pain and cause "users" problems. But it's useful to know why there are "problems".

The ideal would be for the camera companies to agree to a standard interchange raw format that could accept EXIF at time of capture and IPTC at the time of edit. This interchange raw format would still allow secret sauce at the capture stage, but would allow for an open format for writting to and reading from media.

But, since this digital capture industry is so new, it's tough to get old "enemies" like Nikon and Canon and Kodak and Fuji to agree on things that would be in the best interest of the users.

Adobe has made a dent in this with Camera Raw by allowing multi-camera support of raw captures, but it wasn't easy. . .