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Posted on Sun Dec 23 20:54:51 2007 by gsansoucie
Looking for the correct meta tag
OK, this forum has been helpful. . . I've got one that is stumping me (most likely because I'm not searching for the correct terms). As I am scanning in my 35mm negatives, I'd like to set a Meta Tag (or tags) to the Film Type ("Kodak Gold 200 Rev2", etc). I can't seem to find a "FilmType" meta tag. Anyone know the correct tag to use? I've been kicking around the idea of adding it to the description, though I have actual text in most of these images describing the scene, event, etc.
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Posted on Mon Dec 24 04:41:04 2007 by exiftool in response to 6759
Re: Looking for the correct meta tag
I don't think you'll find an answer to this specific question in the forum, as I don't remember anyone who ever wanted to add film type information.

The question is: what format do you want the information stored in, and what needs to be able to read this? I would suggest creating a custom tag of your own to store this information, but if you do this the only format which would possibly allow other software to read this custom information is XMP. So if this was me, I would create a custom XMP tag called FilmType and use that.

If this sounds like what you want to do, look at the config file documentation for an example of how to create user-defined XMP (an other types of) tags.

- Phil
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