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Capture One Analytics/Dashboard

Suchintha Jinadasa
Hi,

I've been using Capture One for a few months now and been very happy with the product.

I've read and heard that Lightroom allows for exporting of statistics from the catalog. For example, I can export the data to Excel and do my own analysis of which lens I use most, what the aperture I'm at most of the time, how many keeps vs. throws, etc. Maybe this is done using a third party tool, if it is not natively supported by Lightroom.

I was wondering if there is functionality similar to this within Capture One or using a third party application. I've looked online, but have not been able to find any leads. I'm curious if anyone else in the forum has any experience with this.

Thanks.

Such.
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  • Suchintha Jinadasa
    Hi,

    I just heard back from Support on this. They confirmed that Capture One does not have this functionality nor is planning on adding it to the roadmap.

    I'm curious to hear if anyone else has found a third party tool or another way to get to this information. Seems like a waste to have all this analytics hidden inside Capture One and not available for analysis.

    Such.
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  • SFA
    Interesting.

    What would you do with the information if you had it and why?


    Grant
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  • Rick Stufflebean
    It can tell you your most used focal lengths, bodies used, etc.

    Frequently you can find out that a focal length you 'think' is your most used actually is not, or can find out what focal length you use most frequently in zooms can guide you to a "Best Money Spent" prime lens purchase.

    It would be very handy tool to have for C1 Pro. Or a separate app that would simply collect info from catalogs or sessions.
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  • SFA
    I'm not at all sure that this sort of analysis would be in any way meaningful to me if performed across my range of images taken with a number of different cameras that use various formats and sensor sizes.

    It is very easy to over analyse something and see meaning where none exists.

    If you want to get a general feel or what you are doing (as opposed to what you probably should be doing) with your images, ignoring the complexities of how you have cropped images and so on, just add a few filter options to the Filters tool and see what is reported.

    Alternatively use another tool that will read the metadata and allow you to save an output file and work with that using, for example, a spread sheet program.

    For anyone working mainly with prime lenses the analytics would only show them which lenses they use most - which they probably know anyway. Their reasons for using that lens may not have much to do with its focal length - and they will likely know that too.

    Just my opinion of course. For full disclosure I should probably mention that my background includes data analysis and the use of software tools that make such analysis possible. There are times when they have no useful purpose. Or worse.


    Grant
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  • Michael Iannantuoni
    Have you lookded at BR's EXIFextracter:
    http://www.br-software.com/extracter.html
    or Exif Pilot:
    http://exif-pilot.en.softonic.com/
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