Re: digital camera question

From: AES/newspost (siegman_at_stanford.edu)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:21:29 -0800

In article <cnggh2$88l$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu>,
 Andy Resnick <axr67@op.cwru.edu> wrote:

> > My simple question now is: naming of the (thousands+) of digital
> > image files. My camera assigns a sequential name (number) to
> > each pic I take, but I want the file name to show date/time/subject
> > as a better way to organize them. I can do this manually, but typing
> > out a 'rename' on the keyboard for hundreds of files takes longer than
> > it does making the pictures. What do pros (and prolific amateurs) do
> > for organizing? I don't want fancy (and expensive) software which
> > usually contains 80% more bells and whistles than I need - nor the
> > 'album' types which, in my experience are confusing fluff.
> >
> > To save on obvious responses, I do know that the date/time is recorded
> > when the pic is made, and the 'create' date can be seen by a series of
> > mouse clicks. No - I want to see all at a glance without moving my
> > sore right arm for each one - and this info often gets lost when backing
> > up, restoring, editting of the original file to copies for cropping,
> > enhancement,
> > etc. I want to keep this info secure for the life of the archive.

I'm not totally clear as to exactly what capabilities you want, but I'll
pass along that iView MediaPro, one of the commercially available
software programs for cataloging, sorting, organizing, manipulating and
otherwise working with large collections of images and photographs, is
widely used and liked by many individual users, including my own
experience for many years and thru several upgrades.

It _is_ a commercial product, but is available for both Windows and Mac
with good support and a good user group. It does have many "bells and
whistles", but these are all easy to use and have interfaces that are
easy to learn, and include "batch renaming" of selected groups of
images; preservation and editing of comments and digital data imbedded
in the images; and display of any selected parts of this and other
associated data under the thumbnails when a catalog is viewed in
thumbnail or proof *** view.

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