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Catalouging by EXIF

Ben Rubinstein

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I'm interested in a program that can go through all my files on a disk and then give me a readout as to the percentages of images taken with each focal length found, the idea being that I can find out what I've been using for when and base certain decisions on that.

Does anyone know of a program that will do this? I'm sure there are many many other similar applications that would make it a useful tool.
 

Ben Rubinstein

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to answer my own question:

http://www.softsymphony.com/photostat_descr.htm

it's freeware, even shows graphs, and is facinating in the results, I hadn't realised that on my 24-70L I used the two extremes more than anything else for wedding work by quite a large margin, also that the rest of the photos were spread out evenly between all the focal lengths. I had expected to see far more 35mm and 60mm but nope, or at least no more than 48mm, 56mm etc.
 
What cataloguing program do you use? You might be better off exporting the metadata as text and then whacking it into an Excel pivot table.
 
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