Filmtagger: free tagging software for film scans

Filmtagger screen shot

The description for Sverrir Valgeirsson‘s free Filmtagger software says it all:

Filmtagger is an application for those of us that still like to shoot film but use the computer to manage our photo collection.

Filmtagger makes it easy to embed EXIF, XMP or IPTC information in the scanned images about camera used, film, ISO, lens, date and other tags.

The program will scan the selected catalog and set the appropriate tags in all jpg or tif images it can find (a backup file will be created).

Download Filmtagger for Mac & Windows

Perl script for adding EXIF data to JPGs

Sean Scanlon of bluedot has written an open source Perl script that will add camera make and model EXIF fields to JPGs.

EXIF is a standard for embedding exposure-related metadata such as camera make, model, lens focal length, shutter time, f/stop, etc. in image files. The data can be searched by image management databases, remind you of how you shot an image when you’ve long since forgotten, and many photo sharing sites like Flickr display them for uploaded photos. Dead useful! The hitch is that while digital cameras automatically add this info to every shot, you’re generally out of luck when it comes to adding this info to film or print scans. This script allows you to do that, and that’s why this script rocks.

Thanks, Sean!