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gphoto2 is more for archival. For whatever reason it feels safer to me to use the CLI as a feeder for the other apps; gphoto2 grabs the photos off the camera,
by frio 7y ago
gphoto2 is more for archival. For whatever reason it feels safer to me to use the CLI as a feeder for the other apps; gphoto2 grabs the photos off the camera, pops them in a folder, and I then import into digiKam from there rather than from the camera.
The archive is independently backed up and remains a pristine home for all my digital negatives, without the risk of me annihilating things in digiKam/Darktable, which I am wont to do ;).
- brudgers 7y agoThat makes sense. I use Rapid Photo Downloader to ingest images. It handles renaming, directory creation, and teeing the data stream to a primary and a backup location. https://www.damonlynch.net/rapid/ https://www.damonlynch.net/rapid/ It replaced shell my scripts about two years ago. Periodically, I archive the online disks to an offline disk. When the online backup disk is full, I archive it and buy another. Likewise with the SD cards from the camera, I shoot until they are full and then archive them. I don't delete images off of them and replace them when full. I treat SD cards as a consumable...like film.
- frio 7y agoThanks for the link, I'll take a look :).