Hi Timur,

On 04.04.2018 21:06, Timur Irikovich Davletshin wrote:

> 1. DT relies only on libexiv2 in extraction of EXIF metadata.
> 2. exiv2 fails to extract vendor specific information from DNG file
> (converted via Adobe DNG Converter) when compared with exiftool. But
> original NEF data is there.
> 3. As last resort for lens detection DT relies on Exif.Photo.LensModel,
> which is just ASCII string encoded by converter.
> 4. Converter writes ambiguous data in Exif.Photo.LensModel without. No
> vendor, no exact model, just '18.0-55.0 mm f/3.5-5.6'.
> 5. Feeding vague data to lensfun gives no good results.
> 6. Native DNG by Pentax use non-standard vendor specific Exif.Pentax*
> namespace.
> 7. Focus distance information is also vendor specific.
> 
> If not mistaken problem should be fixed on very root... which is
> libexiv2. But it's just MHO.

I didn't check it, but that sounds like the right direction. I guess it
could be confirmed by dumping the metadata using the libexiv2 command
line tool (exiv2) and comparing the output to what exiftool gives.

cheers,
Simon
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