search photo origin in Photos

P0mme,

You may find that each of your devices uses a distinct prefix in the photo file names. The filenames are included in matches to search terms you enter in the search box at the upper right corner in Photos for Mac.

For example, an older digital camera used the prefix IM00.

The iPhone 5s running iOS 10.2.1 uses IMG_.

and so on.

If you are running Photos for Mac 2.0, you may wish to check this resource from Apple Support. The search function is flexible, and will match a range of general category terms as well.

http://help.apple.com/photos/mac/1.2/#/pht64de33e5a

Find photos by text or date

You can quickly find a photo by searching for associated text, such as the photo title, description, or date. You can also search for photos taken at a location, such as “California,” or that fall into a general category, such as “beach, “zoo,” “animal,” and “dog.”

iGardener

I don't think you can do a search by camera model (or at least that doesn't seem to work for me). However, you can absolutely make smart albums by camera model - just create a smart album, select Camera Model, and then choose from the cameras on the list.

Note that this doesn't necessarily search for YOUR camera - maybe your friend has the same camera model. When I import photos I also add a keyword/tag "MyiPhoneSE", or whatever, so then I can both set up smart albums and also search by keyword.

EDIT: once in a while the photos I've imported don't have any information for camera model: I'll have "No camera information" in the camera pane. I don't know what I did differently/incorrectly that day for the camera model to not carry over into Photos, but it's only happened a couple of times. Things also get a bit weird with photos copied over from Messages: sometimes the metadata copies over, sometimes it doesn't, and I've never really figured out the rules. Anyway, that's another good reason to tag them with keywords when they're first imported.

EDIT: once in a while the photos I've imported don't have any information for camera model: I'll have "No camera information" in the camera pane. I don't know what I did differently/incorrectly that day for the camera model to not carry over into Photos, but it's only happened a couple of times.

I'm occasionally seeing that too for my Panasonic DMC-FZ300 camera. The RAW files and JPEG usually will have the tags "Camera Make: Panasonic" and "Camera Model: DMC-FZ300", but these tags are missing for the keyframes of the short 4k video clips. Photos will import the key frames as separate JPEGs, and for the key frames as well as for the video clips the camera tags are missing.

Yes, with a smart album.

Thank You Lost in Asia. Did not know that!

iGardener

You are welcome.

iGardener