Is there a Mac tool that can analyze photo EXIF metadata and show usage statistics or graphs?
Asked 11/30/2010
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I'm looking for a Mac utility that scans a folder or library of JPEG/RAW photos and summarizes the embedded camera metadata—ideally with statistics or graphs. Useful data would include lens and camera usage, focal length/zoom range, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, flash settings, date/time patterns, and similar EXIF fields. Support for RAW/DNG would be helpful. What Mac options are available?
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I know of Exposure Plot ExposurePlot on PC, it's pretty nice and free.
Is your question that you are looking for one on Mac? Someone asked in DPReview forum but not much came out of it. Someone elsewhere is using Parallels Desktop to run a Windows XP virtual machine and use Exposure Plot from it.
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There doesn’t seem to be a well-known Mac equivalent to ExposurePlot mentioned in the answers.
Options suggested:
- Adobe Lightroom: not a dedicated EXIF graphing tool, but it can filter and count photos by metadata such as lens model, focal length, and other capture settings. It gives useful statistics, though not in graph form.
- Aperture Inspector: can extract metadata statistics from an Apple Aperture library.
- ExposurePlot: a free Windows tool that does the kind of graphical analysis you described. One answer notes Mac users have run it via Parallels Desktop and a Windows VM.
So on Mac, Lightroom is the closest broadly useful option from the answers, while Aperture Inspector may help if your images are already in an Aperture library. If you specifically want graphical EXIF plots like ExposurePlot, the only confirmed route in the provided answers is running the Windows tool in virtualization.
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