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Excellent App for generating Statistics at a reasonable price
I was looking for a simple inexpensive app to sort out my focal length use, in order to decide if I were to buy a new lens. Some recommendations were either extremely complicated command line programs, while others were quite expensive. Photostatistica provided all I neeeded at a good price in a fast running programShow lessdicky109
Useless on iPad
The app is nice on the Mac but it doesn’t read any photo stored on iPad except if it’s on iCloud or an external disk. It doesn’t seem to be any way to get to the Photos app so you cannot get any info on your library.Stephaneonline
BEWARE Inaccurate features described!
This app has features described that do not exist! For example, it says it works with Photos on iPad but IT DOES NOT. And you can’t get your money back from Apple because of this. I tried and they said it’s not an eligible reason. So beware the features described here and beware of the developer who clearly is not concerned with providing a quality product to customers.Show lessBad Robot
Developer Response
Sincere apologies. I have just picked up this review - and you are right the description was wrong. This was an honest mistake when the app was upgraded and the sales text for the Mac app was used by accident here - the Mac app can access Photos libraries. Nonetheless you were inadvertently misled. I am sorry that Apple didn't refund you - they should have. Please contact us on hello@bristolbaycodefactory.com as we want to put this right.A PivotTable Tool for your images
Anyone who is familiar with Excel Pivot Tables will feel right at home here.Billy_
Wow!
Was curious about what focal length I use most often. Did a google search for an app and found this. No trial version available but thought I could eat the $5 if it was a bust. Just did some initial tests and two things are immediately apparent. (A) This thing is fast and flexible. And (B) At $5 for a Mac OS based app, this is a steal! Was able to scan my entire Apple Photos library (>25k Images) in no time at all and do an analysis. Plus I was able to change the parameters & thresholds of the analysis quickly. It also has the flexibility to look at folders of images as well. Not certain how I often I will use, but for the info I initially needed Very impressive. Documentation is a little weak but the get started video is all you really need.Show lesspapalou54
Useful, excellent support
The general purpose of the app is very useful. Most photo library programs are bulky, slow, and inefficient. This program is simple in all the correct ways. It gives you quick insights into a library of photos which can be used in interesting ways.
Support is great. A feature request I made was implemented super fast.Show lessBrando159
Excellent app, responsive developer
PhotoStatistica is an excellent app for visualizing data in a group of images. I particularly appreciate the filtering options to reduce the analysis to a subset of images. Be sure to watch the tutorial videos on the dev's website to get the most from PhotoStatistica.
I originally rated PhotoStatistica 4 stars because it wasn’t picking up the extra data Lightroom adds to an image (Lightroom doesn't write ratings, keywords, location data and other added information back into RAW files to avoid corrupting them, instead saving them in sidecar XMP files). I contacted the dev about adding the option for PhotoStatistica to read additional metadata from XMP files, and within a week he had added the capability. So now it’s a 5-star app!Show lessDrdul
Insightful
I’ve just scratched the surface of this app at this point but can safely say that it will provide tremendous insight into your photography. Like everything else, practice and self-evaluation is what will make you more and more proficient and skilled. Part of that analysis includes the technical aspects of how you took a particular picture as well as composition, lighting, etc.. How could I improve on the results? Maybe a faster shutter speed, etc. Is there a pattern to what is working and what isn’t?
This tool brings the specifics to light in a simple visual way yet allows you to drill down for a deeper look. The training tutorials are short, sweet and topic driven. I’ve had the occasion to request support and was impressed at how quickly my question was answered.
This is a “must have” tool in my bag!Show lesspepejay2146
Great way to explore equipment use
This app works well and is easy to use. It scanned a folder with approx 16k images in just a few minutes. The data are placed in a database that can be saved for future use … no need to scan the same folder again. If you rescan the folder, the app is smart enough to only scan photos that have changed since the last scanning.
Once scanned, working with the data is very fast. Graphs are created almost instanteously. Filters are applied with immediate changes to the displayed graph.
The developer is very responsive. I heard back within a few hours when I sent in a "wish list" for additional filter options (e.g. filter by keywords).
I grabbed this app because I was curious about the focal lengths I tend to use with my 24-70mm lens on my fairly new full frame kit. I was thinking I should add a 70-200mm lens because I had this sense that I frequently wanted to zoom in more than my 24-70mm allowed. Sure enough, with just a couple of clicks and a few filters (narrow the 16k down to the specific lens and raw images), I could easily see that I have a large number of photos at 70mm. I was surprised to find a large number at 24mm as well (I didn't have a sense of wanting/needing a wide angle lens).
Then I asked the app to filter the data to a Micro Four Thirds kit with a 14-140 lens that I have used a lot in the past. It immediately displayed a breakdown of the focal lengths (as FF equivalent values), which clearly showed I shoot frequently in the 70-200mm range when I have it available.
Exploring the data has been interesting. I feel more confident that I would put a 70-200mm lens to good use. It also has me thinking about a wide angle lens now.Show lessbgde2
learn more about your own photography habits
Great app for understanding what settings you use on your camera(s). Gee, I didn't realize that half my photos were taken using ISO 200-400 settings, or that I really don't shoot as much telephoto as I thought I did.
This is a great (and cheap!) companion app for whatever you use to organize your photos (Adobe Lightroom, Bridge, Luminar, etc). While those apps let you filter and search in your photos to find individual photos, this one is showing you overall stats/charts of your photo characteristics across all your photos. Feeds my inner data geek!
Especially nice for us propellerheads: the EXIF data is exportable in both csv, and if you save photostats, as JSON, which is great if you want to use the data from photostatistica in your own geeky data science fun.
Lastly, I reported a bug to the developer yesterday.... and it was fixed within 24 hours! Insanely responsive developer.Show lessSouthPonder
