Originally posted by GeneV Pardon me if this has been discussed elsewhere (like just about everything else), but I have noticed a difficulty as I go back and try to find photos for various lens threads. Pentax lenses, especially zooms, seem to be erratic about identificaton in the EXIF files. The DA17-70 is never named at all in the EXIF for K10d or K20d shots. The kit lens comes up pretty consistently, but will skip being named in a shot or two in a sequence when I know the same lens was used. Is this a lens issue or a body issue or just my issue?
If you are talking about scanning your hard drive or storage device for a photo, I think it depends on what you are using to look. I would Love to use Bridge (Photoshop CSx) for that purpose but for some reason, Adobe does not recognize my DA*55 and I recently noticed, the DA15 Ltd. I can search a focal length but that requires Knowing the FL. In the case of a zoom, it does become a little more difficult. I've also noticed that with Some lenses, even on the K7, the kens ID is different than the actual lens but that's usually with third party lenses. With the K7 however, using PhotoMe, I find that all of my Pentax lenses are correctly ID'd and it is the software used in the search or info display (like Bridge) that is incorrect.
Neither the 15 or 55 were ever used on my K20d and haven't been used on the K10d yet (it's still at FW1.10), but the lenses that were, again, Pentax, were correctly identified in PhotoMe.