Metadata & Gear
A scanner can't know when, where, or through what glass a frame was shot. Winder makes writing that story fast — once per roll, not once per photograph.
The gear belongs to the roll
Open a roll and edit its details:
- Film — pick the box off the shelf, or type a brand and model under Other.
- Camera — pick the body; the lens fills itself in from the profile.
- Scanner — a lab, a Plustek, a phone over a lightbox.
- Scan date — when the film met the scanner. Not when it was shot: a roll can sit in a drawer for a decade first.
Every frame on the roll reports that camera, lens and film, so the photo sheet doesn't ask again. A frame that names its own still wins — it was either filed before the gear moved onto the roll, or edited by hand, and neither is Winder's to overrule.
The shelves
Winder ships a catalog of films and bodies that it can show a picture of. The first cell of each shelf is always Other, because a film the catalog doesn't stock is not an error — it is just a film, and the way out never filters away.
Picking a box writes nothing but the brand and model, exactly as typing them
would. So roll.json stays hand-editable, a hand-typed Kodak / Gold 200 gets
its photo for free, and a film a later version stops shipping loses its picture
but never its name.
Brand names are translated on screen and never in the vault: the picker may say
柯达, the folder always says Kodak.
Camera profiles
Choosing a body fills in the glass that came on it:
| Camera | Lens |
|---|---|
| Pentax 17 | HD Pentax 25mm f/3.5 |
| Kodak Ektar H35 | 22mm f/9.5 |
| Kodak Ektar H35N | 22mm f/8 glass |
| Olympus Pen EE-3 | D.Zuiko 28mm f/3.5 |
| Olympus Pen F | (interchangeable — set your own) |
| Canon Demi EE17 | SH 30mm f/1.7 |
| Ricoh Auto Half | 25mm f/2.8 |
| Fujica Half | Fujinon 28mm f/2.8 |
| Yashica Samurai | 25–75mm f/3.5–4.3 |
| Alfie TYCH | Multi-aperture 33mm |
Shooting something else? Type any camera and lens — free text is always allowed.
Per-frame details
Open any frame and tap the caption card to set what belongs to that photograph rather than to the roll:
- Date — when the shot was taken.
- Place — picked on a map; drop a pin and name it if you like.
- Notes — push processing, the story behind the shot.
- Favorite — the heart, also available right on the viewer.
It reaches the file itself
Winder doesn't only write its own sidecar. Camera, lens, film, date, GPS and notes are stamped into the JPEG's real EXIF block, so a photograph exported to anywhere else still says what shot it.
Rewrites replace the metadata segment only and never touch the pixels — a decode-and-re-encode on every edit would quietly grind a library down. A favorite tap doesn't rewrite anything; changing the camera on a roll rewrites every frame on it.
Location
Frames with a place appear on the Map tab, clustered by spot — your library becomes a travel journal. Coordinates are stored as plain latitude and longitude in the sidecar, and as proper GPS tags in the file.
Updated 2026-08-06