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On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around |
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> 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got |
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> a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different |
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> camera models, etc, going back ten years. Sometimes in JPG, sometimes |
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> RAW, sometimes both. |
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> And I've never really managed them well. |
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> Does anyone have any photo management tool they like? I've got bits of |
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> Qt and Gtk installed already, and while I'd prefer to avoid pulling in |
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> a full desktop environment, I might--if the tool is good enough. It |
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> would have to: |
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> * Handle RAW (via libraw or dcraw is fine), JPEG, PNG[1] and TIFF[1] |
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> content and metadata |
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> * Index by metadata, including things like the recording camera's |
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> serial number[2] |
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> * Not be destructive, or ambiguous about being destructive, on image |
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> import. I tried using Amarok to organize my music, which is in similar |
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> disarray, and I was never sure if it was being destructive about the |
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> source files/folders. So I made copies. Which ultimately added to the |
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> disarray. |
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I think Digikam can do all of it and more. :) Not sure how much of KDE |
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it will require... |
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Check out the features list at: |
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http://www.digikam.org/drupal/features |
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