[gentoo-user] Kubuntu - edit file details shown in Dolphin?

[gentoo-user] Kubuntu - edit file details shown in Dolphin?

[Mark Knecht]

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This isn't Gentoo specific but I'm wondering if anyone knows how to edit
values shown in the 'Details' tab of Dolphin, either in KDE or at the
command line?

To keep graphics out of this email feed I'm attaching a link to a
screenshot on Google Drive. Hopefully the permissions allow anyone to view
it.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pfbMAMz5Btbyx7tAJ90c2KXDKeMRWBOA/view?usp=sharing

In this case I'm shooting digital pictures on a modern DSLR with a lens
originally built in the 1970's for film cameras. As such it does not report
to the camera it's focal length and fstop which are filled in with default
values by the camera at 50mm and f/0. The lens is actually a 200mm lens
with fstops 4 to 22. I'd like to edit those two values if possible.

Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kubuntu - edit file details shown in Dolphin?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 11:36:22 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:

> This isn't Gentoo specific but I'm wondering if anyone knows how to edit
> values shown in the 'Details' tab of Dolphin, either in KDE or at the
> command line?
> 
> To keep graphics out of this email feed I'm attaching a link to a
> screenshot on Google Drive. Hopefully the permissions allow anyone to
> view it.
> 
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pfbMAMz5Btbyx7tAJ90c2KXDKeMRWBOA/view?usp=sharing
> 
> In this case I'm shooting digital pictures on a modern DSLR with a lens
> originally built in the 1970's for film cameras. As such it does not
> report to the camera it's focal length and fstop which are filled in
> with default values by the camera at 50mm and f/0. The lens is actually
> a 200mm lens with fstops 4 to 22. I'd like to edit those two values if
> possible.

You can do it from the command line with media-libs/exiftool. Dolphin
only shows the values here, I wonder if there might be a plugin for
editing.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Kubuntu - edit file details shown in Dolphin?

[Mark Knecht]

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On Sun, Dec 6, 2020 at 11:49 AM Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 11:36:22 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> > This isn't Gentoo specific but I'm wondering if anyone knows how to edit
> > values shown in the 'Details' tab of Dolphin, either in KDE or at the
> > command line?
> >
> > To keep graphics out of this email feed I'm attaching a link to a
> > screenshot on Google Drive. Hopefully the permissions allow anyone to
> > view it.
> >
> >
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pfbMAMz5Btbyx7tAJ90c2KXDKeMRWBOA/view?usp=sharing
> >
> > In this case I'm shooting digital pictures on a modern DSLR with a lens
> > originally built in the 1970's for film cameras. As such it does not
> > report to the camera it's focal length and fstop which are filled in
> > with default values by the camera at 50mm and f/0. The lens is actually
> > a 200mm lens with fstops 4 to 22. I'd like to edit those two values if
> > possible.
>
> You can do it from the command line with media-libs/exiftool. Dolphin
> only shows the values here, I wonder if there might be a plugin for
> editing.
>

I suspect learning to do it from the command line is my best long-term
answer. This is mostly about astrophotography where I set up a shot and
then do 100's of exposures. They all have the same values so finding a way
to edit 300 or even 1000 files at one time from the command line is my best
case. I currently put them in folders that are labeled but eventually
things get copied and moved around and I wanted a better solution.

Stunning how many other parameters are attached to the source file and not
shown in Dolphin. I had no idea that Canon actually has 256 parameters
according to a pipe through wc.

Thanks very  much Neil. This is the exact solution I was looking for.

Cheers,
Mark

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