How to set IPTC infromation on selected photos/albums?

[Chris Green]

I'm running digikam 0.9.5 beta.

I have been scanning old pictures and slides and have been putting
camera and film information in the IPTC 'Source' field.  This seemed
to work once but now I see that that *same* camera and film type is
stored against every picture I've scanned and also against newer
digital pictures.

I'm sure this *used* to work, I set the source in Configure Digikam -
Identity, then selected som images and clicked on "Synchronize Images
with database" and just those images would get the current Identity.
However this now seems to have set every single image I have in
digikam to the same identity - surely it should be doing this!

Is there any way to set Exif information 'in bulk', i.e. for selected
images or albums?  That would, admittedly, be a better place for the
camera and film information but I can't see any easy way of setting it
in digikam.

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[Chris Green]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 02:21:59PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
[snip]
>
> I'm sure this *used* to work, I set the source in Configure Digikam -
> Identity, then selected som images and clicked on "Synchronize Images
> with database" and just those images would get the current Identity.
> However this now seems to have set every single image I have in
> digikam to the same identity - surely it should be doing this!
>
"shouldn't" of course.

> Is there any way to set Exif information 'in bulk', i.e. for selected
> images or albums?  That would, admittedly, be a better place for the
> camera and film information but I can't see any easy way of setting it
> in digikam.
>
Looking further I'm not sure that Exif is the right place, maybe IPTC
"Special Instructions" would be better.  Anyway the question still
stands - how can I set the same EXIF or IPTC metadata on a number of
selected images?

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