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Library module Lens metadata includes lens I don't even own.

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For a set of photos I have just started to edit, here is the lens metadata. Not sure why so many photos have lens unknown. I did use and still use old Nikon MF lenses, but I have my D3 set up so I can select one of those lenses. Maybe I neglected to do that for this series. But how could I have created a photo with a 70-300 mm f4.0-5.6 lens I don't even own?

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The subject is a meeting room, and the composition clearly doesn't say "really long lens." I do have an 80-200 mm f2.8 lens, which I would certainly use in preference to an f4.0-5.6 lens.
 
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Which lens is shown in the metadata for the photo in question?
 
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did you take the photo referenced by the lens you don't own? Remember, if you import a photo someone else took you'll get their camera info.
 
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Paul McFarlane said:
Which lens is shown in the metadata for the photo in question?
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PhilBurton said:
For a set of photos I have just started to edit, here is the lens metadata. Not sure why so many photos have lens unknown. I did use and still use old Nikon MF lenses, but I have my D3 set up so I can select one of those lenses. Maybe I neglected to do that for this series. But how could I have created a photo with a 70-300 mm f4.0-5.6 lens I don't even own?

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The subject is a meeting room, and the composition clearly doesn't say "really long lens." I do have an 80-200 mm f2.8 lens, which I would certainly use in preference to an f4.0-5.6 lens.
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The lens at issue is the 70.0 - 300.0 mm f/4.0-5.6
 
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Califdan said:
did you take the photo referenced by the lens you don't own? Remember, if you import a photo someone else took you'll get their camera info.
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Yes I did.
I've been culling photos in this collection. Apparently one of the culled photos is the one with the spurious 70-300 mm lens.
 
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