Photometa

Have you ever wondered what lens to get next? I did too, and to narrow the search space a little bit, I first wanted to answer the question: Do I need a wider or narrower lens?

To get some real data to answer that last question, I made a Lightroom plugin that collects metadata from all my photos. It turns it into graphs for different lenses. For example, this is the usage of my 17-55mm lens:

This should suggest that I get a narrower lens, since I have so many photos at 55mm. On the other hand, I am really using the spectre up to 37mm. The conclusion is not clear, but it's a starting point.

Installation instructions

Download photometa.zip Unzip the file In Lightroom, open the plugin manager (File / Plugin Manager...) Click "Add" Select photometa.lrplugin, which we unzipped in point 2 Help me afford a new lens :)



Usage

Select the photos you want to create statistics for (possibly all photos) In the menu, navigate to Library / Plug-in Extras / PhotoMeta / Export HTML Specify where to export the webpage containing graphs Wait until the webpage opens in your browser

Changelog

0.1.1