Saturday, February 4, 2012

Searching in Adobe Bridge

If you want to find all photos you ever took with, say ISO 200, you can easily do that in Adobe Bridge. You just select Edit > Find, select "ISO" as search criteria and "200" as value.

It is slightly more tricky if you want to search for all files with a particular shutter speed or aperture, as these fields do not appear as search criteria. What you can do is to search for Exposure, which is a field that contains both those values. E.g.: "1/30 s at f/2.8". This means that you have to enter the values as free form text.
Some fields, like ISO and Focal length, are numeric, so you can search for all photos where the Focal length is greater than 50mm. However, the Exposure field is a text field, so it is very difficult to collect all files with shutterspeed greater than 1/200.

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