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Oct 14, 2012 05:31 |  #1

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but here goes. Is there a program available that can interogate the EXIF data from a collection of photos and produce some sort of graph which displays the focal lengths used in all the shots?


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Oct 14, 2012 06:32 |  #2

ExposurePlot does; but only for jpegs: http://www.cpr.demon.n​l/prog_plotf.html (external link)

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I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but here goes. Is there a program available that can interogate the EXIF data from a collection of photos and produce some sort of graph which displays the focal lengths used in all the shots?


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Oct 14, 2012 07:55 |  #3

Light Room will do it for Raws, but it will give you only a list of numbers, not a graph.


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Oct 14, 2012 09:16 |  #4

I put something together around jhead and gnuplot. But be warned that the data is mostly useless when used on your whole picture archive. The problem is that for some focal lengths you take a lot more shots of the same scene, namely birds and airshows on the long end and difficult exposures like sunsets at the short end.

You would have to run it exclusively on the pictures that you did show around.


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Oct 15, 2012 06:55 |  #5

Jeffery Friedl's DataPlot plugin for Lightroom can do that. Select a bunch of images and run the plugin and it'll produce a bar chart -

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If you don't like the layout then you can always save the raw data into a .csv file and import it into your favourite graphing application, like Excel...

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Oh. As well as focal length you can do the same with Aperture, ISO, Shutter Speed and Exposure Value.

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Oct 15, 2012 12:23 as a reply to  @ hollis_f's post |  #6

Thanks for that Frank. That looks just what I'm after. Thanks also to everyone else who replied.


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Oct 15, 2012 13:44 |  #7

You didn't mention software you already have. Do you have Lightroom? Otherwise a plug-in will be of no use to you.


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Oct 15, 2012 16:09 |  #8

PixelMagic wrote in post #15125551 (external link)
You didn't mention software you already have. Do you have Lightroom? Otherwise a plug-in will be of no use to you.

I do have Lightroom 3. I just didn't realise that it could do what I wanted with the aid of a plug-in.


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