(Auto?) Adding EXIF on legacy lens shots

[Durbs]

I've just recently added a couple of old manual lenses to my A7RII and really enjoy shooting with them.

In LR, is there anyway to auto-detect the lens for EXIF data? Obviously not aperture, but lens (and thus focal length - they're both primes) would be useful.

The only way I can think is manually looking at the dates/shots and knowing what lens I used, then adding it this way. I use K&F adaptors, but they're both "dumb" so not sure this will help at all.

 

[stupar]

Not that i am aware of.
Not sure if the Sony camera is like Fuji but on my XT1 when shooting with legacy lenses i can custom set the focal length of the lens that then shows up in the EXIF.
You wont get the name of the lens though as there is no info to report back to the camera on that front.

 

[Durbs]

Ah ok - i'll dig through the camera's (awful) menus and take a look. Guessing it can't differentiate between lenses though, so you're setting this manually each time?

 

[stupar]

Ah ok - i'll dig through the camera's (awful) menus and take a look. Guessing it can't differentiate between lenses though, so you're setting this manually each time?

Again not sure on Sony cameras but on the Fuji's we have a menu as below (6 preset focal lengths with the last two customisable)

Maybe Sony have something similar.

 

[stupar]

To save you hassle I had a look online and it appears that you can enter in manually the focal length of the legacy lens you are using but Sony choose not to forward it into the EXIF data.
If this is the case then the only other way is to use some sort of EXIF tool

Hope this helps a little

 

[mag1882]

A bit of a stretch, but more out of curiosities sake, could you attach the pins from another lens and have it show up as that? similar to the way leica does it?