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Organizer 9 only goes to ISO 1600

Feb 13, 2012 1:52 AM

Tags: #find #iso #sorting #organizer_9

Strangely, Organizer 9 only goes up to ISO 1600 when searching for photos By Details (metadata).  Digital cameras these days routinely go to ISO 6400 and many go to ISO 12,800.  Some even go to ISO 204,800 and the maximum will probably keep rising.  Adobe should treat ISO like it does Focal Length and allow the ISO to be typed in rather than have a very limited ISO pulldown menu with the only choices being 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1600.  Most cameras allow selecting the ISO at 1/3 stop intervals. Today I wanted to find the ISO 6400 photos in my catalog that contains about 50k photos.  The only choice was to find photos with an ISO greater than 1600 so it returned over 600 when there are only a handful of ISO 6400 photos.  I then had to go through each of those 600 to find the ISO 6400 ones.  Adobe, please allow the ISO to by typed in the same as Focal Length.  Thank you.

 

Organizer also doesn't even allow me to sort based on ISO so I can't have the highest ISO photos at the top.  I have to tediously go through all 600 to find the ones I want.  Adobe, please allow sorting on various factors.  Thank you.

 
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    Feb 13, 2012 2:08 AM   in reply to bakubo

    Hi,

     

    The same limits apply in PSE 10.

     

    Adobe only occasionally pop their heads in here. If you want to make it more visible to Adobe then you need to go to

     

    http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family

     

    You will have to sign in and fight your way around there but things might be seen there.

     

    Good luck

     

    Brian

     
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    Feb 13, 2012 2:52 AM   in reply to bakubo

     

    Have you tried changing the search parameter e.g. ISO speed is greater than 1600?

     

    Maybe not perfect, but could narrow things down.

     

     

     

     

     
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    Feb 13, 2012 3:02 AM   in reply to 99jon

    Jon,

     

    The original posting says they have tried that and returned 600 photos.

     

    Brian

     
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  • 99jon
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    Feb 13, 2012 3:12 AM   in reply to LittlePaleFace

     

    Oops I missed that bit Brian. Yeah 600 is a lot to sort through.

     

     

     
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    Feb 17, 2012 11:47 PM   in reply to bakubo

    The short answer is that it can't be done.

     

    For those who are familiar with databases, here's the long answer:

     

    Apparently the Organizer's Search bar only sends a SQL query to the metadata_string_table table.

     

    I looked at the database tables, and the metadata_string_table table only contains metadata values whose content is a string.  There is another table -- the metadata_integer_table -- that only contains metadata values whose content is an integer.  IOW, the metadata_string_table table only contains metadata whose description_id refers to an id value in the metadata_description_table table whose data_type is a "string_type".  Similarly, the metadata_integer_table table only contains metadata whose description_id refers to an id value in the metadata_description_table table whose data_type is an "integer_type".  Among other metadata items, the ISO Speed is defined in the metadata_description_table table as an "integer_type".

     

    Thus, you can type a search term in Organizer's Search box to look for "make:" or "model:" or "author:" because those data types are strings, but not a search for "ISOSpeedRatings" because that data type is an integer.  When you use Find...By Details (Metadata) to look for items with an ISO Speed of > 1600, the code is using a SQL query that does a join including the metadata_integer_table to return the results.  Unfortunately, there's no way within Organizer to manually built that kind of custom SQL query.

     

    Ken

     
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    Feb 18, 2012 10:50 AM   in reply to bakubo

    I used a 3rd party database query tool -- Database.Net (http://fishcodelib.com/Database.htm).

     

    Ken

     
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