Bill Moseley wrote:
I know a few people here work with a digital camera. I'm often off with my camera and my laptop and I'm wondering how people manage their photo collections. What tools do you use to sync your laptop with your camera? I was using rsync, then I had a Perl program that uses Image::Info to look at the date and time the photo was taken and store it like: ./13-Mon/2004-12-13-Mon-10:25:12-00137.jpg but I'd like to have a tool that would allow me to rotate images and assign categories upon sync. Are there better tools available?
I find that a image browser is the best. Just mount the card (mine are all compact flash), browse, grab the few I like, done. Your method has merits though and seems reasonable.
Then I suppose rsync is the best tool to sync with my desktop.
I upload from laptop to web / storage server. Then you can get the pictures whenever you need them, whereever you need them.
There's also a lot of image gallery programs available. Any suggestions? I'm using "imageindex" now, but thinking about a mod_perl program to generate the gallery on the fly instead of having to re-run a program to rebuild the html files. The mod_perl program could cache the reduced images and use the thumbnails inside the original photos. And maybe MySQL for organizing and searching for the images. But, if someone has something they love, I'd like to hear about it.
I prefer the generate on upload method. Why have a dynamic site for largely static content? Plus it means I need mod_blah + apache when often a more simple, scaled down web server will suffice.
As for the SQL thing, still pondering that myself. Currently using directory + file names + my own memory.