Дон Андре Published on February 2nd, 2008
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Some (technical) analysis of my photographic activities

Saturday February 2nd, 2008 at 05:02PM

I once found a nice program that allows one to analyze the metadata of all your photos. It then creates 4 graphs showing a histogram of focal length, shutter speed, aperture and ISO. I think especially the focal length histogram is interesting if you thinking about lenses. An analysis of 15,500 pictures that I've shot with the D80 showed that most of the photos were taken from ultra wideangle to about 65mm. The big bar at 50mm is because of my 50mm f/1.8 lens that I use for low light photography and when I think image quality is important. Generally I like the 50mm, but I think a wider one would be better, something like a 28 or 35mm which would be a true normal lens for the D80. Of course the histogram is biased to the lenses, but it was surprising to see that even with my 18-200 I mostly stayed at a wider focal length.

The program that can create these statistics is called ExposurePlot.

5 Comments / add your comment?

tschörda says:
guter tipp, das nehm ich mir gleich mal zur brust - statistik-narrisch, wie ich bin ... thx!
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Agnus says:
Unfortunately it doesn't scan RAW-files...

Seen in agnus home page (?)
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink / translate )
Дон Андре replies:
That's true and a difficult thing to do. One consequence of shooting RAW is that you're saving your images in a proprietary file format (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format). To be fair, ExposurePlot doesn't support DNG either though.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )
Agnus replies:
I convert all my image files to DNG when transfering them to my harddrive. I once decided to do so because I thought that format maybe guarantees a longer support than proprietory file formats as e.g. CR2. The programme is nice though, a pity I can't use it for my photos.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )
M a d . P h o t o . W o r l d says:
Well DNG is probably gonna be around for some time, since its supported by adobe :)
Im currently testing how to convert the RAW files to OpenEXR files. It does take up space, but its a well know format.
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

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