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This may be out of scope for Nitro but it’s one of very few apps that reads all exif metadata. I’d love a feature to do some analysis on a folder’s worth of images’ metadata, like histograms by lens and focal length (to see how I’m using a zoom lens), or by aperture (to see if fast lenses are worth it…), etc.
If that is out of scope, how about an exif export function for selected images? I know that it can be done via Exiftool but that’s command line only and there don’t seem to be good GUI front ends for Mac these days.
I do have plans to provide some analysis tools for metadata in a future release. Exporting exif is an interesting idea (export EXIF). I’ve put it on the list.
Just as additional information: Excire and Peakto are doing this kind of analysis thing like “how many images I took with which camera / lens(es) in a specific time frame” or simply answering the question “how many images did I really take with that heavy, expensive lens I needed so badly?”. There’s also another little app called Photo Statistica from Bristol coding (or something along that name line) in the app store.
However, two things do make that approach less usesful:
Not every body (although with the same mount) is reading lens data the same way. Especially the “maker” tag comes up with surprises. Now, wether Sigma changed the lens description between firmware updates or several bodies of the L-mount “alliance” got different ideas implemented how to write the lens description into the meta tag section. Various lens entries appear twice, although it’s the same lens.
Nitro’s approach to not work with a database of it’s own (correct me if I’m wrong) will make this filtering a bit more time consuming, I believe, but images on several external drives will increase the duration of that query, too, no?The app maintains a small database with some of that information, which is what I would use for the stats. You are correct that metadata is in general a complete mess with camera files – the camera companies cannot even consistently write the same model name into the files for a given camera – I have seen files from the Canon R6 Mark II that have a camera model of EOS R6m2 and other have EOS R6 Mark II.
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