Lightroom: Meta-Metadata

For those of you that are using Lightroom to manage your image collection, here's a free report utility, written by Marc Rochkind, that summarizes your meta data in more detail than what Lightroom provides in the Library module:

Select the ImageReporter download for Mac or Windows, in the yellow box.
http://imageingester.com/ImageIngester/index.php

I ran it using a Lightroom Quick Collection to limit the report to only 1DsMk2 images.
Conclusion:
I had no idea that over half of my 500mm shots were with a 2x TC!
My AVERAGE focal length with the 500 mm was 821mm !
I can use this in a PowerPoint presentation to my wife to justify purchasing the new Canon 800mm !!

Here's an example of the output:
Sorry about the lack of formating - The forum software removes spaces ?? - but it should give you an idea of what is reported.
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Number of images: 18,289

Count by Focal Length (nearest 10mm)
18289 Canon / Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
2496 / 13% / 20mm
1030 / 5% / 30mm
1176 / 6% / 40mm
2470 / 13% / 50mm
361 / 1% / 60mm
259 / 1% / 70mm
156 / 0% / 80mm
465 / 2% / 90mm
1466 / 8% / 100mm
2115 / 11% / 1000mm (2x TC)
543 / 2% / 110mm
12 / 0% / 180mm
1598 / 8% / 200mm
6 / 0% / 280mm (1.4x TC)
1696 / 9% / 400mm
902 / 4% / 500mm
812 / 4% / 560mm (1.4x TC)
724 / 3% / 700mm (1.4x TC)

Count by Make and Lens
1402 Canon / 100.0 mm
1870 Canon / 17.0-40.0 mm
1604 Canon / 200.0 mm
793 Canon / 24.0 mm TS-E
3633 Canon / 24.0-105.0 mm
355 Canon / 35.0 mm
2508 Canon / 400.0 mm
1108 Canon / 45.0 mm TS-E
922 Canon / 50.0 mm
3741 Canon / 500.0 mm
337 Canon / 90.0 mm TS-E

Average Focal Length for Make and Lens (fractions rounded down)
100mm Canon / 100.0 mm
26mm Canon / 17.0-40.0 mm
200mm Canon / 200.0 mm
24mm Canon / 24.0 mm
53mm Canon / 24.0-105.0 mm
35mm Canon / 35.0 mm
451mm Canon / 400.0 mm
45mm Canon / 45.0 mm
50mm Canon / 50.0 mm
821mm Canon / 500.0 mm
90mm Canon / 90.0 mm

Count by Make, Lens and Focal Length (nearest 10mm)
1402 Canon 100.0 mm
1870 Canon 17.0-40.0 mm
-- 905 / 48% / 20mm
-- 544 / 29% / 30mm
-- 421 / 22% / 40mm
1604 Canon 200.0 mm
-- 1598 / 99% / 200mm
-- 6 / 0% / 280mm
793 Canon 24.0 mm TS-E
3633 Canon 24.0-105.0 mm
-- 797 / 21% / 20mm
-- 485 / 13% / 30mm
-- 400 / 11% / 40mm
-- 440 / 12% / 50mm
-- 361 / 9% / 60mm
-- 259 / 7% / 70mm
-- 156 / 4% / 80mm
-- 128 / 3% / 90mm
-- 64 / 1% / 100mm
-- 543 / 14% / 110mm
355 Canon 35.0 mm
2508 Canon 400.0 mm
-- 1696 / 67% / 400mm
-- 812 / 32% / 560mm
1108 Canon 45.0 mm TS-E
922 Canon 50.0 mm
3741 Canon 500.0 mm
-- 2115 / 56% / 1000mm
-- 902 / 24% / 500mm
-- 724 / 19% / 700mm
337 Canon 90.0 mm TS-E

Count by ISO
7538 -- 100
5 -- 160
928 -- 200
1 -- 320
3141 -- 400
166 -- 500
93 -- 640
6106 -- 800
21 -- 1000
18 -- 1250
271 -- 1600
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Bill ~ Pretty awesome! Being a little nutty about stats, I'm going to have to check this out....

Huh? I don't get it! I don't understand number that don't have an f/ in front of them. Or maybe 1/16 Secconds time recording. The rest of what you said went by me in all three lanes!

Sorry, James, the output is easier to read with spaces - which were not preserved in the post example.

The statistics are obviously overkill - but you might find something interesting about your shooting habits, and it can be run on any subset of images that you care to define in your Lightroom catalog.
For instance, you could limit it to your highly rated (5 star) images and see which lenses, focal lengths, or cameras were used to create these. Of course, this could create so much guilt that you would be forced to sell all the lenses that don't show up in this query.

Here are the column headers for each category:

Count by Focal Length (nearest 10mm)
Image count # / Percent of total images / Focal length (NOT lens - rounded to nearest 10mm)

Count by Make and Lens
Image count # / Lens & make

Average Focal Length for Make and Lens (fractions rounded down)
Average Focal Length / Make of lens used
Obviously most useful for zoom lenses - or determining TC usage on primes

Count by Make, Lens and Focal Length (nearest 10mm)
Image count # / Lens and make
-- for variable focal lengths it shows (indented with -- )
-- Image count # / Percent of total for the lens / Focal length for lens (nearest 10mm)

Count by ISO
Image count # / ISO

I limited my report to a single camera model.
It gets more interesting when multiple camera models are in the catalog.