[Digikam-users] Question about EXIF/IPTC, tags, comments, etc.

[Arnd Baecker]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Chris G wrote:

> I'm currently scanning a lot of old B&W negatives from the 1960s,
> initially I have just scanned them into albums by (approximate) date
> as that is how they are stored.  E.g. number 64_04_11 is the eleventh
> negative of the fourth film I shot in 1964.
>
> So far so good!  :-)
>
> As I'm scanning the negatives I'm putting descriptions (as far as I am
> able) of the subject etc. in the comments field.  Am I right in
> thinking these comments are stored in the image file as well as in the
> Digikam database?

If you have configured digikam accordingly: yes.
Check the configuration, I think writing that information
into the files is not active by default.

> Now I would like to add some technical information to the images, what
> is the best way of doing this?  I want to add such things as camera,
> and possibly the film type where I know it.  It seems a bit clumsy to
> add these as further comments and anyway it would be rather difficult
> to add the same comment to a batch of images,

I would use tags for this purpose
(actually also even for the description you might
be better of with using tags ....)

Best, Arnd