Lens info not in Smart Album?

I am having some trouble with duplicate files (no idea how it happened), but even all duplifinder or duplikiller are finding the wrong duplicates. Basically a bunch of images have a duplicated JPEG, and I can always tell which is the duplicate, because it contains no lens information, while the real JPEG and the RAW image have the lens info. I was hoping to filter out the ones without lens info (make 2 smart albums, one with both lens) and then delete the ones that are ot in that smart album, but while iPhoto seems to see that lens info, it seems you can't use it in Smart Albums. All I see is Aperature, Camera Model, Flash, Focal Length, ISO and Shutter Speed. All the images have all that info, but only 2 out of 3 have the actual lens info (EF50mm F/1.8 II) for example.
Does iPhoto just no deal with this Metadata?

Correct.
Regards
TD

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