Shot Statistics

[MarkBarbieri]

Shot statistics

In case anyone is interested, here is the breakdown of my shots on my recent WDW trip by effective focal length (focal length converted to 35mm film equivalent) and aperture. I did not include the handful of shots that I took outside of the parks.

I used a Canon 1D Mark II, which has a focal length multiplier of 1.3x. I carried 17-40mm f/4.0, 50mm f/1.8, 24-70mm f/2.8, and 70-200mm f/2.8 lenses. I did not bring every lens every day. The 24-70mm was damaged about half way through the trip and saw very limited use after that. The statistics are only for the shots that I kept.

My party consisted of myself, my wife, my two sons (ages 7 and 4), and my parents. I focused primarily of photos of the kids and shows. I also took a fair number of sign shots. I took very few architectural shots. We rarely stayed late, so I took very few night or fireworks shots.

I used program exposure mode for most of the shots, although I frequently adjusted the camera determined settings. For almost all of the remaining shots I used aperture priority.

All 4 parks combined
3071 total shots taken
800 shots kept

Effective Focal Lengths
4% 22.1-30mm
27% 30.1-50mm
37% 50.1-100mm
16% 100.1-200mm
14% 200.1-260mm
1% 260.1-364mm

Apertures
0.1% <f/2.8
24% f/2.8
21% f/3.0-f/3.5
17% f/4.0-f/5.0
20% f/5.6-f/7.1
17% >=f/8.0


Magic Kingdom
232 shots kept

Effective Focal Lengths
4% 22.1-30mm
28% 30.1-50mm
43% 50.1-100mm
15% 100.1-200mm
10% 200.1-260mm

Apertures
14% f/2.8
13% f/3.0-f/3.5
19% f/4.0-f/5.0
32% f/5.6-f/7.1
22% >=f/8.0


MGM
137 shots kept

Effective Focal Lengths
7% 22.1-30mm
15% 30.1-50mm
22% 50.1-100mm
25% 100.1-200mm
31% 200.1-260mm

Apertures
1% <f/2.8
35% f/2.8
16% f/3.0-f/3.5
21% f/4.0-f/5.0
18% f/5.6-f/7.1
9% >=f/8.0


Epcot
191 shots kept

Effective Focal Lengths
6% 22.1-30mm
46% 30.1-50mm
48% 50.1-100mm

Apertures
20% f/2.8
18% f/3.0-f/3.5
16% f/4.0-f/5.0
20% f/5.6-f/7.1
26% >=f/8.0


Animal Kingdom
240 shots kept

Effective Focal Lengths
2% 22.1-30mm
20% 30.1-50mm
32% 50.1-100mm
23% 100.1-200mm
20% 200.1-260mm
5% 260.1-364mm

Apertures
32% f/2.8
33% f/3.0-f/3.5
15% f/4.0-f/5.0
10% f/5.6-f/7.1
10% >=f/8.0

 

[jann1033]

interesting you used so many under f4 at ak...i would have thought you would have used more faster for animals outside...were the lower light mostly shows and rides ?

 

[MarkBarbieri]

If I recall, most of the 2.8 shots at AK were in the FotLK. I think I used an f/4.0 on the safari ride. That gets me enough DOF to give me a bit of wiggle room in the focus but still gets me a really quick shutter speed to counter the bumpiness.

 

[Furgus]

Mark, do you have a program that runs that data, or do you manually input it into a excel sheet?

 

[boBQuincy]

Mark, do you have a program that runs that data, or do you manually input it into a excel sheet?

Wega2 sorts and displays this data (and more). I have it and will share it with you Monday if you haven't downloaded it by then (it's free).

The results are often surprising, it shows a lot of images taken at the widest settings (means I needed a wider lens, which I bought) and a lot of images taken at the long end of my walkaround lens (means I am too lazy to change to the 70-200 much of the time).

 

[Furgus]

Wega2 sorts and displays this data (and more). I have it and will share it with you Monday if you haven't downloaded it by then (it's free).

The results are often surprising, it shows a lot of images taken at the widest settings (means I needed a wider lens, which I bought) and a lot of images taken at the long end of my walkaround lens (means I am too lazy to change to the 70-200 much of the time).

Downloading now Of curse you will prob have to show me how to use it on Monday

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Mark, do you have a program that runs that data, or do you manually input it into a excel sheet?

On the odd occasions when I need to do this, I usually find something that does and download and use a trial version. I've yet to find a program that does what I want well, which is to simply dump all of the EXIF information into a tab delimited or CSV file so that I can upload it into the database of my choice and do my analysis my own way. This time I used Wega2, which I didn't really like but it got me my data.

The popular thing here appears to be bar charts with counts per 10mm of focal range. I'm unsatisfied with that approach. The buckets that you choose have a huge impact on how you see the data. I like to play with the data in Excel first so that I can choose buckets that tell me more. I'd also like to be able to do a lot better multi-variable reporting like apertures by focal length. I also want to look at my ISO choices by available light (which can be determined by looking at the ISO, aperture, and shutter speed). That will tell me when I tend to shoot with too high or too low an ISO. My real world job is managing a data integration and warehousing team so my instinct is to always get the data into a relational database and start scrounging through it.

 

[boBQuincy]

The popular thing here appears to be bar charts with counts per 10mm of focal range. I'm unsatisfied with that approach. The buckets that you choose have a huge impact on how you see the data. I like to play with the data in Excel first so that I can choose buckets that tell me more.

I am an engineer and Furgus is an IT guy, so like you we are usually into the data. I found that Wega2 can report on the actual focal length used, and I don't use any crop conversion factor so I know just which lens I was using at the time.
It's still not as versatile as getting the data in Excel but being an engineer I am also lazy! Or I am missing the point altogether (another characteristic of engineers).

I found I used the widest setting of my 24-105 a lot so I bought a 10-22 and now I see I use that one mostly at either 10 or 22.

This data can be used for good (to improve our photography) or for evil (to convince DW I need more lenses). As for me, just point me down the path to the dark side...

 

[DueyDooDah]

As Wega does not support RAW files, does anyone know of one that does?

 

[boBQuincy]

As Wega does not support RAW files, does anyone know of one that does?

I do not know of one, especially for the attractive price of FREE, but there is usually (always?) a jpg to be extracted from the raw. I use raw and use BreezeBrowser to extract the embedded jpgs from my raw files.