Comments on: New Lightroom Plugin: Focal-length Plot

By: Andrew Shieh in Sunnyvale

Andrew Shieh in Sunnyvale — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:14:46 +0000

That’s nifty (but i’m not a Lightroom user). It may be more useful to have the focal length buckets in a geometric scale. In other words, N to N*1.2 would make more sense than N to N+19.

By: Paul C

Paul C — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:26:15 +0000

Fantastic timing, I’ve been thinking about this a lot. In particular I want to check a particular shoot where I used an 18-200 lens to analyze how much swapping I would have done had I used a different lens/es. And perhaps to justify a new lens, too…

By: Zak

Zak — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:34:00 +0000

…By that I mean the setting, not the program.

By: Zak

Zak — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:52:33 +0000

Very cool. Can’t wait to try it out. Any plans on expanding it to aperture?

I’ve thought about it, but you can select “Aperture” in the Library Filter and get a count of each aperture, so adding it here is not as compelling. —Jeffrey

By: Daniel Cutter

Daniel Cutter — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:29:25 +0000

I have something similar working: Just a few perl scripts picking at the EXIF data. I even used it to reason with my wife why I needed ‘another’ lens. I wouldn’t use your plot though. I heavily use the 50mm prime. That would reduce all other focal lengths to near nothing. So my plots are only for the zoom lenses. I also have lists and plots saying which Lens I used most over time that also shows when every lens was added to (or removed from) my kit.

You could use the Library Filter to exclude your 50mm prime, then run the plot. —Jeffrey