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Bonjour43ma
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 17:15
Was told about this program that analyzes your shooting habits based on aperture, ISO, focal lengths, and shutter speed. I think it would be great for everyone to see what they REALLY use and perhaps redo their lens selection to better fit your shooting needs.

take a look:

http://www.cpr.demon.nl/prog_plotf.html

Mine looks like this (shooting mostly indoor sports):

http://www3.telus.net/public/berno2kn/usage.JPG

:smile:
BrandonSi
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 17:41
Wow! Very cool!

My only problem is that what you mainly shoot, and what you want to shoot can be two different things.. I'd love to shoot some birds this spring, but my longest lens is 300mm, which isn't great for that.. so it wouldn't tell me what lens I should get.. but that's me just nit-picking.. I'm going to play around with that for sure!

edit: aww.. jpg only :(
tekkie
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 17:46
pretty neat
crn3371
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 17:56
Just downloaded it, pretty cool.
Lightstream
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 19:48
Exposureplot is awesome. It's convinced me I can never be happy with a prime.. most of my shots are all over the place.
KevC
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 20:53
Cool. A newbie should get a used 18-200mm and run this program on all his shots....

Focal length sampler =) Then buy good glass based on what focal lengths he/she uses most =)
Lightstream
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 20:59
Cool. A newbie should get a used 18-200mm and run this program on all his shots....

Focal length sampler =) Then buy good glass based on what focal lengths he/she uses most =)

Exactly!

The alternative is kit lens + 75-300, that is a reasonably generous spread of FL's. If they feel the gap is a problem then they'll know they have to take care of that too.

If you never sample the various FL's, how would you ever know what you shoot at?
4x4rock
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 21:11
75% at ISO 1600 ? :D

You should get outside more hahah j/k

I ran this a while ago and it gave me some FL that I never had, like 1400mm or something like that.

Cool program regardless.
CRE@TE
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 21:14
75% at ISO 1600 ? :D

You should get outside more hahah j/k

I ran this a while ago and it gave me some FL that I never had, like 1400mm or something like that.

Cool program regardless.

It's probably because you have some photos that are very cropped.
4x4rock
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 21:24
It's probably because you have some photos that are very cropped.


Hmmm, didn't think of that. It would suck big time if it actually can look at cropped and reported the FL on cropped image.
Ronald S. Jr.
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 21:26
Here's my useage. Only, it's just for my 5D. What's my next lens? All together now..."50 1.2L!!!!" :lol:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/remulac/5Duseagecrop.jpg
Bonjour43ma
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 21:27
too bad it doesn't read RAW files. so JPEG-only at this time.

Still a neat little program, though :)
bacchanal
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 21:31
Cool. A newbie should get a used 18-200mm and run this program on all his shots....

Focal length sampler =) Then buy good glass based on what focal lengths he/she uses most =)

Based on that logic, I would have missed about 95% of my shots, which are taken at f/2.8 and below.
Lightstream
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 21:33
Here's my useage. Only, it's just for my 5D. What's my next lens? All together now..."50 1.2L!!!!" :lol:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v611/remulac/5Duseagecrop.jpg

Very interesting to see someone else's plots.. yup.. fully agreed that the 50 seems to make sense for you since you work that focal length a lot.
coreypolis
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 21:50
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v721/viperx27/lensinfo1.jpg
Bob_A
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 21:50
Awesome little application. It tells me that 45% of my shots are at exactly 24mm, 50mm and 70mm and 79% are at ISO 400 or lower.
GaryK
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 23:27
I had it analyze my June trip to Alaska. There were a number at 320/640 for wildlife shots but a very large number at the zoom minimum (18 = 28.8 and 28 = 44.8). This confirms that my purchase of the Canon EFS 10-22 a couple weeks ago was a good decision before my upcoming trip to Greece.
kram
29th of January 2007 (Mon), 23:44
I downloaded it to find out if I should move from the 28-75 to the 24-105. And found out that my camera / lens has been recording the wrong focal length on many of my snaps!! Yes, looks like I shot a ton of shots at 63mm.

Anyway, worked well for the other lenses. Its a very good program
vkalia
30th of January 2007 (Tue), 01:09
Out of curiosity - how many people are surprised by what this thing reveals?

I'd imagine that most photographers would have a pretty good idea already as to what their preferred focal length/ISOs are...

Vandit