Originally posted by stevebrot It is a rule of life that we lose things because were were not careful where we put them. Copy the files into the catalog file structure at import directly from the SD card and have them sorted into folders by capture date. Assign keywords at import time. Add additional keywords after import and assign to new or existing collections as needed. If you don't have time to do it properly the most recent import is available until overwritten. You may also stash references in the "temporary collection" until you have finished with the categorization.
Steve
(Is this far enough off-topic?)
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You mean sort of like the first wave of digital cameras? When I bought my Canon G2 back in the Dark Ages, RAW capabilities were a relatively rare value-added feature.
As for 35mm film with Polaroid capabilities ==> no need for digital...You totally lost me. The power of digital is that the captures have almost no physical reality, that and the immediate gratification of rear LCD viewing. People loved their consumer Polaroids cameras, but hated the bulk of the capture media and the amount of trash associated with the culls and the relative expense per image. One hour minilabs provided very quick access to finished prints for 35mm users, but even then there was the matter of boxes full of snapshots and hard-to-keep-track-of negatives. Digital photography was a Godsend to the snapshot photographer.
Direct-to-the-cloud image capture is an intriguing concept whose time may very well have come. It relieves the casual user of the tedium of maintaining the hardware needed for image storage. The ongoing expense for that storage and the bandwidth costs for viewing/working with the images may get a bit old, but if nobody makes money, it is a cinch that nothing will ever happen.
Coming back to the K-S1, a single-step wireless solution through a smartphone/tablet proxy would be a nice feature. In the meantime, however, simply mounting the SD card filesystem onto a compatible tablet or phone to publish to the cloud can accomplish much the same thing. Perhaps they may even find a way to do it easily without a wire
Steve
I've got 70,000 or so photo's in my lightroom catalog, I've probably deleted 10x as many. I'm 36 and actually shot film when I was in grade school (learned black and white photo processing) and high school. My first digital was a 1mp Olympus point and shoot. I used a Nikon SLR (still have the SLR) and a point and shoot 35mm for film. With film you were pretty careful when you took a photo being fully aware of the costs. Digital you can just go crazy and try anything you like. It takes a while to wear out a shutter.
If that had been real film:
1. No way I could have afforded that, I took 3000 photo's on a 10 day trip to Italy alone, image the film cost!
2. I would need a building to store them. I've got 13 years of digital backed up across 3 external drives that are each about the size of a wallet, can't beat that!
RAW still bests jpeg because it contains more data. It's the same dilema with lossless vs mp3 for audio. The jpeg was created as a compression tool and became popular. Some jpeg engines are that good, I use jpeg in my fuji but raw's for the pentax.