Exif4Film - any users?

[vinyljunky]

Is anyone here using Exif4Film? It looks like a nifty app that can help you store metadata for analog photographs. It has an Android app as well as a desktop application that automatically adds the data to your scans.

More information:
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/07/30...otographers-infuse-metadata-into-film-photos/

http://codeunited.dk/exif4film/

Has anyone used this? Any feedback on the interface/ease of use? Since I shoot film exclusively, this looks like it could help a lot.

 

[defconfunk]

I downloaded it.
I've only used it a little bit, since I don't like stopping to record each shot. I just take notes on when I add filters and such (exposure 15: added Orange filter. exposure 24: took off orange filter). I'm slightly annoyed by the selecting which roll of film you want to see. There are filters for loaded before or after or unloaded, etc - but no option for "currently loaded film (ie load date, but no unload date). Since I run two cameras, I'd like to see only those two rolls of film, not have to hunt through them all.

It could grow on me, but I'm not hugely fond of it yet.

 

[venchka]

Lightroom does that for me. I built presets for lenses & film & developing. When I remember to use them. Grinning.

Wayne

 

[Brian Puccio]

I was actually thinking of making something like this for my own use (but for iPhone). Right now, I'm just writing everything down (date, time, film used, ISO, shutter, aperture, lens, filters and metering method). Then I put it all into a spreadsheet and use that plus a script to add it to all of my scans. It was very useful when I was just starting to shoot slide film in a rangefinder (having used a DSLR previously) since I could figure out what I was doing wrong and right.

 

[vinyljunky]

Brian, it looks like we're both doing exactly the same thing. I figured Exif4Film is a step above pen & paper, but from what I hear it's not all there yet. It's a free app, so I guess I'll give it a shot.

 

[dct]

Brian, it looks like we're both doing exactly the same thing. I figured Exif4Film is a step above pen & paper, but from what I hear it's not all there yet. It's a free app, so I guess I'll give it a shot.

I do the same, like you and Brian: Notes on small sized cards (like business cards) and copy the values from time to time to my rolls/sessions spreadsheet. The cards and a tiny pen are still far smaller than a smartphone.

Having all the information already on my computer I can use it as the direct entry for my metadata workflow which is based on ExifTool and ExifToolGUI.

 

[Brian Puccio]

I do the same, like you and Brian: Notes on small sized cards (like business cards) and copy the values from time to time to my rolls/sessions spreadsheet. The cards and a tiny pen are still far smaller than a smartphone.

Having all the information already on my computer I can use it as the direct entry for my metadata workflow which is based on ExifTool and ExifToolGUI.

Very similar, bash script, a spreadsheet and exiftool does it all for me in seconds. Funny how we all independently came to very similar solutions to the same problem.