Not having embedded shooting metadata is kinda annoying. There are ways around it, like getting stored data out of the camera, but I don't have the gear for that yet.

1. Write a notes.txt for the photos

2. Tag dates and camera data with AnalogExif

3. Use exiftools on the raws to populate the correct date fields, otherwise LR will import using the file's scan date

   exiftool -XMP-xmp:CreateDate= "-FileCreateDate<DateTimeOriginal" "-FileModifyDate<DateTimeOriginal" "-IFD0:ModifyDate<DateTimeOriginal" "-XMP-xmp:ModifyDate<DateTimeOriginal" *.jpg

4. Import to Lightroom as normal
   • Make a collection
5. Fix rotations
6. Add to All Film Shots

7. File ordering should already be correct thanks to AnalogExif

   • It's common for rolls to be scanned in reverse shooting order, or for file mtimes to be out of sequence
   • Adjust seconds/minutes to get all shots to the correct timestamp now
8. You can use the Lenstagger plugin to tag the shooting settings, if you have a fair guess at them
9. Using Lightroom, move the files to the correct folder on disk if needed. But they should've imported correctly already
10. Perform face tagging
11. GPS tag as well

References

• https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=5007.0

• https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=3167.0

• https://exiftool.org/faq.html

• https://exiftool.org/forum/index.php?topic=7935.0

Commands

Inspect all info on a file, use this to figure out why LR is still seeing a current date on an old film scan.

exiftool -a -G1 -s c:\images\test.jpg