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Author of Windows app suggests customers choose a Windows netbook over an iPad - film at 11. FWIW, I don't buy the claim that it's impossible for applications

Author of Windows app suggests customers choose a Windows netbook over an iPad - film at 11. FWIW, I don't buy the claim that it's impossible for applications to get hold of photo metadata - I happen to know someone who is working on an iPad photo application and they don't seem to be having this problem (as evidenced by http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlitos/4669066513/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlitos/4669066513/ )

miratrix 16y ago
Camera Bits make both MacOSX and Windows versions of the Photo Mechanic, and even says so in the article. I thought the netbook bit was for people who're looking for lightweight solution, especially since there are many netbooks with built-in network capabilities? Considering that Photo Mechanic is a fairly expensive piece of niche software for very specific use in the workflow of professional photographers, I thought the points they made were fairly valid. Maybe the EXIF copying can be worked around, but it still won't address the RAM size, no robust connection options for CF, no names for the pictures, and all the other little things that the article mentions that makes or breaks a software like that. If you look in the flickr image you linked, I think the description basically makes the point made in the article - In the flickr description, the author describes 6 steps across 2 different apps to just take some pictures, upload it, and share it with friends. Camera Bits guys are saying that until that becomes a 3 step operation in a single app, it's a no-go in their specific niche market.
- allertonm 16y ago
  I pointed to that image only in relation to the EXIF metadata, since the original article suggested that this problem was the "straw that broke the camel's back" - i.e even if you were prepared to live with the 2-application workflow, even that was not possible. This appears to be false.
kevingadd 16y ago
The comments on that flickr photo don't seem to contradict/disprove the points made by the Camera Bits post. It sounds like he still had to go through Photos and manually attach tag data like geolocation information.
- allertonm 16y ago
  Well, the point is that the photos didn't originally have geotag info, that came from the iPad - but the resulting photos have that and the original EXIF metadata.

miratrix 16y ago

Camera Bits make both MacOSX and Windows versions of the Photo Mechanic, and even says so in the article. I thought the netbook bit was for people who're looking for lightweight solution, especially since there are many netbooks with built-in network capabilities? Considering that Photo Mechanic is a fairly expensive piece of niche software for very specific use in the workflow of professional photographers, I thought the points they made were fairly valid. Maybe the EXIF copying can be worked around, but it still won't address the RAM size, no robust connection options for CF, no names for the pictures, and all the other little things that the article mentions that makes or breaks a software like that. If you look in the flickr image you linked, I think the description basically makes the point made in the article - In the flickr description, the author describes 6 steps across 2 different apps to just take some pictures, upload it, and share it with friends. Camera Bits guys are saying that until that becomes a 3 step operation in a single app, it's a no-go in their specific niche market.

allertonm 16y ago
I pointed to that image only in relation to the EXIF metadata, since the original article suggested that this problem was the "straw that broke the camel's back" - i.e even if you were prepared to live with the 2-application workflow, even that was not possible. This appears to be false.

kevingadd 16y ago

The comments on that flickr photo don't seem to contradict/disprove the points made by the Camera Bits post. It sounds like he still had to go through Photos and manually attach tag data like geolocation information.

allertonm 16y ago
Well, the point is that the photos didn't originally have geotag info, that came from the iPad - but the resulting photos have that and the original EXIF metadata.