Hi BillaVista,
I admire your hootspa.
Note: Lightroom pulls it's exif metadata from the same source as exif-meta. The difference is that Lightroom won't touch anything that's manufacturer specific, and of course just leaves some stuff out.
Anyway, I generally use the Lightroom version wherever available (exif-meta is too "stupid" to know which fields are redundent) - for one reason, all exif-meta fields are treated as strings in smart collections, whereas Lightroom is smarter about data types.
Its a bit of a "Sherlock Holmes" act, figuring out which of the sometimes many candidates will yield the best data - I mostly just use trial and error - maybe somebody else has a more "scientific" approach, or more educated advice...
Keep in touch,
Rob
