EXIF questions

Hi,

I am going through some of my old negatives and scanning them in. I have my negatives cataloged, and what I want to be able to do is add the roll# to the EXIF or IPTC data within the file. The only program that I can seem to locate that seems to be interesting enough to do this is called EXIFER. Though if someone else can recommend a better program, by all means I am all ears. Unfortunately, EXIFER does not allow one to edit certain fields (like shutter time, f-stop, etc.)

When editing EXIF data, the fields it gives me to edit are:

  • Description
  • Artist
  • Copyright
    -- Photographer
    -- Editor
  • Comment

While this works fine enough, I cannot find any of the fields in DO that will read those particular fields. I would like to be able to hover the mouse over the photo and it shows one of these fields. I searched and tried most of them, but as of yet, have not been able to get any of the above fields to display during mouse hover.

So I guess what I need to ask is:

  1. Is there another EXIF editor that will allow me to edit other fields that will show up? I would need something that will run in batch mode. I have no intention of editing EXIF data one pic at a time.

  2. Assuming there is no better sofware, can DO8 show the above mentioned fields?

  3. If DO8 will not, will DO9 support this? Also will DO9 support displaying IPTC data as well as EXIF?

  4. Will DO9 support editing EXIF data?

I tried to use the Set Description in DO, and while it does work, problem is I had a dir last week that had all the data in it. I dunno what happened, i went back to work in that dir this week and all my data is gone. I will have to find the negs again and redo the comments or something. How or why it all vanished I do not know.

Thanks