Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-08 Thread Dale
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 11:04:47AM -0600, Dale wrote: It is a nice program and I'm pretty sure it allows you to download from your card too. I'm not sure gtkam will allow downloads from the card so you are likely headed down the right road. Honestly, if digikam

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Todd Goodman
* Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [120304 15:12]: So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different camera models, etc, going back ten

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: Based on this and other posts in the thread, I'll probably give digikam a try. I did want to clarify one point, though: I don't connect the camera to the computer; I put the SD card into a card reader, and copy from there. It is a nice program and I'm pretty sure it

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: Based on this and other posts in the thread, I'll probably give digikam a try. I did want to clarify one point, though: I don't connect the camera to the computer; I put the SD card into a card reader, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Todd Goodman
* Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [120305 12:09]: [..] Honestly, if digikam worked right with my camera, I'd use it in a heart beat. I like it but I can't get my pics to show up right. I can't figure out why tho. Maybe I should try getting from the stick like you do? Thing is, I leave my camera

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Dale
Todd Goodman wrote: * Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [120305 12:09]: [..] Honestly, if digikam worked right with my camera, I'd use it in a heart beat. I like it but I can't get my pics to show up right. I can't figure out why tho. Maybe I should try getting from the stick like you do? Thing

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: Check out the Eye-Fi? http://www.eye.fi/ When I first heard about it, someone had just gotten a receiving daemon written in Python to work with it. Well, I don't have any wi-fi around here. I live in the sticks but I still don't want that, not yet at least. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 12:10:40 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: Well, I use scp to move the files from machines with with card readers to the machines I do processing. If digikam has any kind of 'import' support, that'd do it. Just drop the files into Digikam's working directory and run Scan for new

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-05 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 11:04:47AM -0600, Dale wrote: Michael Mol wrote: Based on this and other posts in the thread, I'll probably give digikam a try. I did want to clarify one point, though: I don't connect the camera to the computer; I put the SD card into a card reader, and copy

[gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-04 Thread Michael Mol
So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different camera models, etc, going back ten years. Sometimes in JPG, sometimes RAW, sometimes both.

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-04 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different camera models, etc, going back ten years. Sometimes in JPG,

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different camera models,

Re: [gentoo-user] Photo management programs

2012-03-04 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: As someone who also takes a LOT of pictures at times, I don't use software, I just use directories. Mine starts out like this: Camera directory Year subject matter image That works for me. I used to not have the year but that ends up with a LOT of pictures in a