<div dir="ltr"><div>Many reasons, including:</div><div><br></div><div>1. It is not possible to quickly filter an album by camera or lens. True it is possible to create an advanced search but this requires several steps AND the knowledge in advance of which camera or lenses are used in the album.</div><div><br></div><div>2. Videos do not have EXIF. Adding tags would create consistent metadata across photos and videos for my personal use cases.</div><div><br></div><div>3. Support by third party software. When these photos are exported and used/ displayed elsewhere these other softwares do not support searching or grouping by camera and lens. They do support keyword tags, so adding tags would also solve this.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 2 Jul 2021 at 23:27, Remco Viëtor <<a href="mailto:remco.vietor@wanadoo.fr">remco.vietor@wanadoo.fr</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On vendredi 2 juillet 2021 15:09:10 CEST meku wrote:<br>
> I'd like to tag photos with the camera and lens names from the EXIF data.<br>
> Ideally I would use something like the BQM so that it can be somewhat<br>
> automated.<br>
> <br>
> Does anyone have a way to do this in Digikam or otherwise? Apologies if<br>
> this has been answered before.<br>
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I wonder why you want to do this: that information is already in the metadata, <br>
and can be used by the "advanced search" module in digikam.<br>
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So if you want to be able to search on camera or lens, there's no need to add <br>
(read: copy) tags for this.<br>
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