John - One of the biggest advantages of converting to DNG is the elimination of sidecar files. Since Adobe understands the file layout, they can embed the information directly in the DNG.
One less thing to keep track of. This has been a typical internet answer to a question that wasn't asked, all the while not answering the question you actually asked. George Sinos -------------------- gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:28 PM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: > I've spent the day in Bridge re-organizing my back catalog. I'm trying > achieve a consistent naming scheme that identifies the camera and keeps all > the files in the sequence they were taken - e.g. istD_nnnnn.xxx, > K10D_nnnn.xxx ... five digits allows for when the shutter goes past 9999. I > preserve the original file name when I do a batch rename in Bridge. > > IIRC, I got my K10D in late March 2007 and didn't notice the date was wrong > (527 days 5 hours) until sometime in August. Even though I reset the date, I > actually did not get it set completely correctly until October. > > It makes me crazy because I organize in folders by date > "yyyymmdd_location-job_name", and having the wrong date in the EXIF makes it > very difficult to figure out what the date should be for the folder. > > Finally figured out how to get Exiftool to work and what arguments to pass > to it so the date would be adjusted correctly. Tested it out on copies in a > different folder until I was sure the correction was getting the right date. > > Now "Date Created" shows up correctly in Bridge Metadata, but the "Date File > Modified" is still wrong, showing the original screwed up date. Eventually > I'll get that one figured out too. > > Just realized I have to 2005 and fix the ist-D files because I forgot to > change the Time-Zone when I got home from Iraq and Iraq is about 11 hours > ahead. IIRC, I finally noticed that some time in 2006. > > Made sure I checked and set all the dates/times today ... *istD was off by > an hour (not set to daylight time) and K10D was 53 min fast - K20D was 1 min > fast. All had the correct time zone. > > I still need to go back and start key-wording my back catalog. I'm expecting > to pick up Lightroom 3 this next semester. Would it be better to key-word > with that or to continue in Bridge. > > Will Lightroom update the sidecar files I've already created using Bridge, > or does it keep it's own key-word list? > > Or, looking at it from the other direction, will Bridge see the key-words > that Lightroom adds? > > Got out to shoot yesterday, and I'll probably get out again this evening. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
