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As I'm meant to be finishing off my coursework and revising for an exam next Friday I am of course wasting time in whatever way I can to put off having to do work. My flat is relatively tidy, the washing-up and laundry are done so now I'm looking for other things to do to procrastinate. Given this, I saw Exif Stats Utility linked a long time ago on one of the bulletin boards I frequent. I saw it again today so thought I'd give it a go.

My favourite ISO is unsurprisingly 100. More surprisingly though is that I have a large number at 400 and 1600. Given the poor performance of my camera noise-wise at 1600 I'm surprised I have so many. I know I generated a lot one day when I forgot to set it back down at the zoo after going into one of the animal houses but 9% of all my images that it scanned?!

I'm not well represented through the bands at all with lots at 5.6 and lots at 32. Maybe a good learning exercise is to try and deliberatley take more photos in the middle aperture bands to become more familiar with their use.

I have a good spread of times from very short - all the 0's listed at the beginning where there's not enough decimal places to show a descriptive value right up to my longest exposure of 1959 seconds (around 33 minutes). I have a big spike at 128 seconds confusingly. I wonder what all those were? Maybe I was aiming at 2 minutes and the difference is the error in the camera clock / my clock and reactions?

I don't seem to have a favourite lens with my three lenses all around 30 percent. The other lenses are ones that I have borrowed from other people at one time or another. I'm not sure what the 5.4-16.2mm lens is. I don't ever remember using one that short. It's probably an error in the exif. I know I've used a couple of non-canon lenses so it's possible that it's not correctly registered the lens length for those lenses. The 0.0mm lens is probably in that same category. I also have a 500mm manual lens which is (obviously) recorded at 0mm but I suspect some of these are also incorrectly recorded values.

Other things I found out are:

My favourite focal length is 60mm by far followed by 300mm. I expect that the 60mm will keep edging ahead as it's almost exclusively the lens I use to photograph panoramas.

So I guess I now either have to think of something else to use to procrastinate from work - or actually do some!