About the EXIF - OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

EXIFTOOL

Lightroom

Workflow 1

Workflow 2

Workflow 3

Adobe Photoshop / Adobe Bridge

Windows 10 File Explorer

Olympus Viewer exports 16 bit TIFF stripped of EXIF

Olympus EXIF Tags

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

I often see images on the web with the caption "OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA".

For some odd reason, Olympus traditionally puts that text in their image files.

And the web galleries use that as the caption for the image.

If you peer into the EXIF, you will see these words are in the ImageDescription of the EXIF. Somehow, the web galleries take this field and apply it as the Caption of the image (or maybe Title and Subject)

In any case, you might feel like scrubbing this field blank..

EXIFTOOL

One free tool that can be run at one time across a whole folder of files is EXIFTOOL. The command line appears to be

exiftool -ImageDescription="" c:/images/myfolder

assuming that c:\images\myfolder is the folder name.

When run successfully EXIFTOOL will create a new file for the amended JPEG and and rename the old file with the _backup as a name suffix.

Another suggestion is:

exiftool -P -overwrite_original_in_place -m -EXIF:ImageDescription= *.jpg

Lightroom

Adobe takes the EXIF ImageDescription field and maps it to an old, deprecated IPTC field named Caption. Adobe Lightroom reads the ImageDescription field and then creates the IPTC field named Caption and stores it in the Lightroom catalog and optionally sidecar XMP files.

Workflow 1

1. Create a new Metadata Preset (and save it) in the Metadata menu when Library View.
2. Set the Caption field to blank and specify that it should be applied by ticking the checkbox.
3. Select all the photos, then in the right Metadata Panel, choose that Preset to Apply.

Workflow 2

Quote from Adobe Forums:

Select all the photos in Library View, then go to the field where the Caption is shown, and select the entire field and hit backspace.

Workflow 3

Use Jeffrey Friedl's Metadata Wrangler plugin

Thanks to Ulysses Ashton for pointing this out

Adobe Photoshop / Adobe Bridge

Adobe Photoshop does not have a bulk image management screen. Use Adobe Bridge for this work

Workflow 1

Select several image files and press Ctrl+I (File > Info)

Workflow 2

Select several image files and edit the Description field in the Metadata Pane (shown here on the left)

Workflow 3

Create a Metadata Template and apply it to selected image files.

Tools > Create Metadata Template

then select several raw files and

Tools > Append Metadata Template

ACDSee 10

Select several image files files then

View > Panes > Properties

to display the metadata pane and then edit the Image Description field

Windows 10 File Explorer

Windows 10 File Explorer by default, does not have the CODEC to read Olympus raw files from recent camera models. But it can edit EXIF metadata of JPEG files.

Select a few image files and right-click, choose Properties. For some reason, Image Description is not the field that contains the text you want to clear, it is in two fields. Title and Subject

Olympus Viewer exports 16 bit TIFF stripped of EXIF

If you use Olympus Viewer to produce 16 bit TIFF, the file will have no EXIF.

You can use the EXIFTool and the following batch file to copy the EXIF from the raw to the TIFF

drive:\path\exiftool -tagsfromfile %%d%%f.orf -all:all -overwrite_original -r -ext tif

From http://skippermark.com/2013/03/import-exif-data-into-tiff-files-created-in-olympus-viewer-2/

Olympus EXIF Tags

Some programs (Digital Asset Managers) have the ability to search files in bulk for an EXIF Tag. The issue is then, which EXIF tag describes the metadata you are interested in?

Have a look at the comprehensive Olympus EXIF list at EXIFTOOL

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