<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/1/14, Arnd Baecker <<a href="mailto:arnd.baecker@web.de">arnd.baecker@web.de</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Chris G wrote:<br><br>> I'm currently scanning a lot of old B&W negatives from the 1960s,<br>> initially I have just scanned them into albums by (approximate) date<br>> as that is how they are stored.
E.g. number 64_04_11 is the eleventh<br>> negative of the fourth film I shot in 1964.<br>><br>> So far so good! :-)<br>><br>> As I'm scanning the negatives I'm putting descriptions (as far as I am<br>
> able) of the subject etc. in the comments field. Am I right in<br>> thinking these comments are stored in the image file as well as in the<br>> Digikam database?<br><br>If you have configured digikam accordingly: yes.
<br>Check the configuration, I think writing that information<br>into the files is not active by default.<br><br>> Now I would like to add some technical information to the images, what<br>> is the best way of doing this? I want to add such things as camera,
<br>> and possibly the film type where I know it. It seems a bit clumsy to<br>> add these as further comments and anyway it would be rather difficult<br>> to add the same comment to a batch of images,<br><br>I would use tags for this purpose
<br>(actually also even for the description you might<br>be better of with using tags ....)</blockquote><div><br>Arnd,<br><br>A lots of technicals descriptions can be hosted by standard Exif tags. Extra descriptions can be hosted by IPTC if Exif is not enough. Metadata editor can be used for that :
<br><br><a href="http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/newkipimetadataeditplugin2.png">http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/Screenshots/newkipimetadataeditplugin2.png</a><br><br>Note : With XMP supported by KDE4 port, we will host more and more informations with max. interoperability.
<br><br>Best<br><br>Gilles</div></div><br>