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Analyze Your Flickr EXIF Data

Tom — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 16:41:50 +0000

Ghusse’s Flickr Stats tool will analyze your photos’ meta data — or that of any account with public EXIF — and give you some insights into your shooting style. I plugged my Flickr photostream into it and the tool reported:

I most often shoot wide open. My most-used apertures are f/2 (EF 135mm f/2 L), f/4 (EF 24-105 f/4 L) and f/2.8 (EF 24-70 f/2.8 L and EF 70-200 f/2.8 L IS).
My most used focal length is 24mm followed closely by 135mm, then 50mm.
My heavy use of prime lenses means most of my images are at the same handful of focal lengths, but even with zooms I tend to stick to either the long or short end and don’t often use the in-between focal lengths.
My most used ISO settings by far are 100 and 1600.
My favorite mode settings are Av followed closely by Manual.
My image library was made by 12 different cameras excluding unknowns, the most-used by far being my Canon 5D.

Automatically Extract JPEG from RAW File with RawWorkFlow IJFR

Tom — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:05:34 +0000

IJFR (Instant JPEG From Raw Utility) by RawWorkflow.com will automatically extract the embedded JPEG file from a RAW image. I evaluated with Mac OS X version, which is a plug-in for the context menu in Finder — just right-click on a RAW file to extract the JPEG:

Here is how my RAW file appears without any adjustments what-so-ever:

Here is the JPEG extracted from this RAW file using the Instant JPEG From RAW utility:

This utility could be very helpful in a number of ways — you can save card space by not shooting “RAW + JPEG”, refer back to what your camera saw when working on your pictures in post, or quickly generate some proof images for the Web.

Link via “A New Contest, The Strobist, Gerry Ghionis, The Canon 5D Mark II, and RAW Directly to JPEG” by Digital Protalk.

Recover Deleted Pictures with Free Art Plus Digital Photo Recovery

Tom — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:44:37 +0000

Free Art Plus Digital Photo Recover is free Windows software that helps you recover lost images. The software works with pictures that have been deleted, sit on a formatted memory card, or have been the victim of file corruption.

In addition to recovering pictures directly from a memory card, Free Art Plus has an additional feature that will copy the entire contents of the card to your computer. By saving this “disk image”, Free Art Plus lets you go back to using your memory card without worrying about overwriting the deleted images. This sounds like a great feature for any photographer who has a card fail in the field — just make sure you have your laptop handy.

Free Art Plus works with the common image formats such as JPG, TIF and PNG, as well as a variety of RAW formats. Take a look at “Photo Recovery Software” by tech blog gHacks.net for more information on the software.

Photo by Håkan Dahlström.