Duplicate Photos: I scanned through past topics on finding duplicate photos and removing them. Most of the topics are several years old. Does anyone have some current suggestions for...

CJW Loc: Massachusetts

I scanned through past topics on finding duplicate photos and removing them. Most of the topics are several years old.

Does anyone have some current suggestions for removing duplicates? I shoot wildlife, burst mode. Yikes, those pictures build up with all the MP too!

Thanks

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Try the <Delete> key?

I shoot RAW and use a modestly priced FastRawViewer to quickly render the RAW files before any editing or import to Lightroom Classic. I look only at the 1:1 pixel level details and can make an immediate 2-second decision on which images are less than perfect focus. I can kick about 50% of images in one cull, leaving me with just images that take a bit longer to consider in 'good vs good' comparisons. That second pass also can let me kick (delete) another 30% to 50% of what is left. Now I'm ready to import into LR Classic and decide what to edit as I continue to cull. FRV also lets me make color-code and star-ratings of images as you run that cull, this EXIF data then passes into your preferred editor too, as well as rotation (orientation) changes you might make to portrait images.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Since I keep all same subject files in the same folder, I just being up the image view (icons) in Windows Explorer, peruse and delete as appropriate. This includes similar but not identical images.

photoman43

CJW wrote:

I scanned through past topics on finding duplicate photos and removing them. Most of the topics are several years old.

Does anyone have some current suggestions for removing duplicates? I shoot wildlife, burst mode. Yikes, those pictures build up with all the MP too!

Thanks

Once you find one that is perfectly sharp and meets your other requirements, just delete all similar images without even looking at them. This is easier to do if you use two monitors to cull your images.

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

CJW wrote:

I scanned through past topics on finding duplicate photos and removing them. Most of the topics are several years old.

Does anyone have some current suggestions for removing duplicates? I shoot wildlife, burst mode. Yikes, those pictures build up with all the MP too!

Thanks

I use 3 programs on my MacBook - Duplicate File Finder, Duplicate Photo Fixer Pro! and Duplicate Photo Cleaner 7 - they all quickly match similiar to identical photos but I don’t trust auto delete and I do a quick review first.

Check these out 23 Best Duplicate Photo Finder & Cleaner in 2024 (Free & Paid) - they have programs for Mac and Windows.

Also, A quick WEB search lists more to check out

DaveyDitzer Loc: Western PA

[quote=CHG_CANON]Try the <Delete> key?

I shoot RAW and use a modestly priced FastRawViewer tinto your preferred editor too, as well as rotation

One reason I shoot RAW and jpeg is that I can review the photos easily in jpeg and delete both versions in one pass.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

DaveyDitzer wrote:

One reason I shoot RAW and jpeg is that I can review the photos easily in jpeg and delete both versions in one pass.

My time is more valuable. Dropping $23.99 for FRV is a better use of my time to cull exclusively from my RAW-only images.

DWU2 Loc: Phoenix Arizona area

CJW wrote:

I scanned through past topics on finding duplicate photos and removing them. Most of the topics are several years old.

Does anyone have some current suggestions for removing duplicates? I shoot wildlife, burst mode. Yikes, those pictures build up with all the MP too!

Thanks

Photos shot in burst mode are not duplicates. They can be redundant, but aren't dupes.

DaveyDitzer Loc: Western PA

CHG_CANON wrote:

My time is more valuable. Dropping $23.99 for FRV is a better use of my time to cull exclusively from my RAW-only images.

Thank you,
I'll look at it.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Thank goodness I don't wind up with a ton of duplicates at all.
Just maybe a couple here and there, but I'm not worried about them.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Longshadow wrote:

Thank goodness I don't wind up with a ton of duplicates at all.
Just maybe a couple here and there, but I'm not worried about them.

If I don't shoot 1000 images, I wonder later why I even bothered to put on my shoes to leave the condo.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

CHG_CANON wrote:

If I don't shoot 1000 images, I wonder later why I even bothered to put on my shoes to leave the condo.

Wow, I might do a thousand in a week on vacation in Maine in the fall.
I'm very selective in what I shoot.

terryMc Loc: Arizona's White Mountains

Longshadow wrote:

Wow, I might do a thousand in a week on vacation in Maine in the fall.
I'm very selective in what I shoot.

Surely you noted the patent sarcasm in that comment...

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

terryMc wrote:

Surely you noted the patent sarcasm in that comment...

Surely you know that some people WILL shoot a thousand on a one day outing.

JimBart Loc: Western Michigan

Do these duplicate photo finders delete the duplicate immediately or allow you to do it at a later time. Also do they analyze the picture or file name/ number?
What about .img photos? does the photo finders analyze them also.
Never used a duplicate photo finder b4 but I know I have a bunch therefore all the questions