Exif data should show lens info

[bharat]

From:
http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery_3.0_alpha_1_released?page=1#comment-302351

...when uploading to Gallery2 or Gallery3 the lens info is missing HOWEVER you can see the info using Lightroom and you can also see the lens details if exporting using a XMP Sidecar. It would be awesome to have Gallery2/3 allow you to import additional text files and map those to tags/exif/IPTC. I'd like to think it makes sense to have the same file name, excl extension, for the XMP files as the image file.

As an example the following data from the XMP sidecar file that I'd like to be able to map.

<?xpacket begin="" id="...."?>
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="XMP Core 4.1.1 RC">
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<rdf:Description rdf:about=""
...
photoshop:City="Gondar"
photoshop:Country="Ethiopia"
photoshop:Credit="Lorentran Publications"
photoshop:Source="Lorentran's 1/2 baked photo shoot"
photoshop:ICCProfile="Adobe RGB (1998)"
xap:Rating="4"
exif:ExposureBiasValue="0"
exif:ExposureMode="0"
exif:MeteringMode="5"
exif:ISOSpeedRatings="100"
exif:DateTimeOriginal="2009-01-16T17:36:13+0000"
exif:SceneCaptureType="0"
exif:FocalLength="280"
exif:PixelYDimension="3164"
exif:ExposureProgram="2"
exif:ColorSpace="1"
exif:LensMaxMM="280"
exif:PixelXDimension="4752"
exif:ApertureValue="5.6"
exif:FlashpixVersion="1.0"
exif:WhiteBalance="1"
exif:LensMinMM="98"
exif:ShutterSpeedValue="0.02"
exif:Flash="16"
exif:ExifVersion="2.2.1"
exif:LensModel="EF70-200mm f/4L IS USM +1.4x"
tiff:Model="Canon EOS 50D"
tiff:PhotometricInterpretation="2"
tiff:BitsPerSample="16"
tiff:ImageLength="3164"
tiff:Make="Canon"
tiff:ImageWidth="4752"
aux:SerialNumber= ............
aux:Lens="EF70-200mm f/4L IS USM +1.4x"
Iptc4xmpCore:CiAdrCtry="Ethiopia"
Iptc4xmpCore:CiAdrCity="Gondar">
<dc:rights>
<rdf:Alt>
<rdf:li xml:lang="x-default">Lorentran Misadventures</rdf:li>
</rdf:Alt>
</dc:rights>
</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
</x:xmpmeta>

[tnalmdal]

Also from ticket #124
http://gallery.menalto.com/gallery_3.0_alpha_2_feedback#comment-302078

[tnalmdal]

From what I can determine. The exif.php library used by gallery3 does not provide the lens information. Basically, lens information is camera manufacturer specific and as such is difficult to obtain

Couple of options:
1) Request enhancements to the exifer php library
2) Evaluate other exif libraries

Changing to an enhancement and pushing out.

[bharat]

user yeahy suggests that http://gallery.menalto.com/node/75321#comment-269037 might be helpful here.