I think this is a difficult problem to identify a lens from what the camera reports since the lens might tell a lie to the camera.Įxiftool -'*lens*' -G0:2 /Users/jrm/photos/2022Nov10/*.CR3 Sometimes in some fields my Canon lens is identified as a Tamron. One new one is ' RF Lens Type : n/a', but I do not have any RF lenses. As others have mentioned, the lens identifier appears to be in multiple locations and appears to be difficult to interpret. I do not have the latest version, but this is what it reports on my iMac. I use exiftool from a command line on both Debian Linux and macOS. It works perfectly fine when a Canon lens is attached, so the camera does fill metadata fields.Īt least the following 2 threads confirm what I have:Īnd both say it is a Canon bug.With the way Canon is keeping everything close to the chest nowadays, 'forbidding' 3rd party lensmakers to use the RF-mount, I would not be surprised if Canon decided not to fill the lensmaker-details in the correct metadata fields in-camera in case the lens is non-Canon.But of course that is speculation.ĭoes anyone experience the same issue and maybe have a solution, or must the solution indeed come from Canon? My guess is that Canon does not fill the proper metadata fields in-camera in case of 3rd party lenses. I use firmware 1.4.0 on the R6 due to the AF-issues in later versions (hesitant to try 1.6.0). So the camera seems the only common denominator. So I don't think creating a ticket at Flickr makes sense, since it is already missing in the Lightroom library.Īfter that, I thought it was Adobe reading the wrong metadata fields from the camera, but I have been using LR for ages, and it doesn't matter which version of LR I use (of course I always keep it up to date), because I don't have this problem when using the 6D. When I attach Canon lenses (16-35, 70-200, 100-400 etc) to the R6, it works fine: In case of a picture taken with the 6D, I do see the lensinformation with all my Zeiss lenses: While I see this on Flickr when the picture was taken with a Canon 6D:įlickr only shows what is present in the file, so I checked Lightroom, and I see that in case of 3rd party lenses (in this case a 135 apo sonnar) that no lensmaker info is shown, only the focal length on the R6:

Ever since I got my Canon R6, Flickr won't display lensmaker information in case 3rd party lenses are attached.

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