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Title: How to obtain statistics for only a subset of files?
Post by: sybersitizen on April 20, 2025, 09:03:26 PM
The Statistics app is interesting, but I haven't seen a way to limit its reporting to just a subset of files. I wanted to analyze files from just one compact camera to see which focal lengths, apertures, shutter speeds, and ISOs I've used. Files from that camera are scattered among numerous subfolders. I eventually gave up and used a different app that's designed to do it - but only by examining the actual collection of tens of thousands of files - which took a long time.

The output of that app is a ready-made bar chart, which is fine, but I would also be okay with a text file that I could graph myself.

Is there some simple way for IMatch to provide an output of those statistics (and maybe others) for a single camera?
Title: Re: How to obtain statistics for only a subset of files?
Post by: Mario on April 21, 2025, 08:51:59 AM
Maybe try The Statistics Panel (https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/index.html#panel_statistics.htm?dl=hid-1)
Title: Re: How to obtain statistics for only a subset of files?
Post by: sybersitizen on April 21, 2025, 07:31:23 PM
Quote from: Mario on Today at 08:51:59 AMMaybe try The Statistics Panel (https://www.photools.com/help/imatch/index.html#panel_statistics.htm?dl=hid-1)

That might work. I can limit the selected files to a specific camera model, but the existing charts can't show the different counts of, for example, the range of apertures in those files. Can someone give me a hint as to how I could edit this chart to do that? Everything I've tried just produces a single bar showing the total number of files.

Aperture Range Chart.jpg