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Originally Posted by silkstone
The problem is that the various applications for this create proprietary databases that cannot be read by other software, so you're locked into a particular brand. I'm very reluctant to do this, especially on an application that is not cross-platform.
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As far as I know most applications can write the keywords into the Exif as well as putting them in the database for any of the generic file formats Tiff Jpeg PSD etc. Exif is a file standard.
Unfortunatley because all Raw files are different standards it's tricky to write Exif as such as the manufacturers are not forced to release all the specs only certain aspects.
Adobe have tried to rectify this with DNG as an open source standard raw format and a few manufacturers are signing up. This has Exif data within the Raw file format. Some people are obviously suspicious that Adobe want to corner the market but once it's out there I think it would be hard to close the door again. However it's now been submitted for ISO approval; if that goes ahead then it may solve a lot of problems as the ISO would manage the standard in the same way as they do Tiff.