Lens Metadata in the Metadata Browser question

Hi,
I just noticed something peculiar while importing a DNG file converted from a 1D Mark III raw file :
The lens used is reported being an "EF70-200mm f/4L IS USM". The same lens used on a 20D is showed as "70.0-200.0 mm".
Why the difference? Is it because the metadata is taken from a DNG? Because the Mk III reports lens differently?
And now, I have 2 lens data for the same lens in the "Metadata Browser". Do I have a way to move pictures from one lens to the other? Or somehow edit that data?
Thanks,
Louis

>It would be nice if LR had the equivalent of synonyms for this field, and built in so it showed them all as the same.
Problem is that 24-70 might be a Sigma, Canon, Tamron, etc etc. So treating them all the same would be silly.
>Ideally, you could just click on a couple of lenses and then choose a menu item to inform LR that the entries are in fact for the same lens.
The best solution is one were users can edit this and other similar fields from within the metadata panel. For example, my camera may have © Ian Lyons registered in EXIF but I can already change this to read Ian Lyons, and it will be reflected in both the metadata panel and the metadata browser. Using this approach for the Lens field I could reduce from 40 entries to just 20. With your approach I would still have 40 entries and twice as many clicks to find the same batch of images. No thanks.

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    Search Web Services are an entirely different animal. They extend (or federate, if you like) ALUI's search into other search engines. That happens in realtime. (However, it can only be as current as the target search repository's index.) There are no SWSs that come out of the box with ALUI, although there is a nice example for searching Google posted on dev2dev somewhere (try the CodeShare).
    HTH,
    Chris Bucchere | bdg | [email protected] | http://www.bdg-online.com

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