On 12/11/06, Bruce Harrison <harrison@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Our University Relations group is looking for photo indexing/cataloging/storage software/hardware. I thought I'd query the wisdom of the collective group. They shoot Nikon/Canon digital 35mm, convert camera files to Adobe RAW format and save them. Also scan the occasional medium format negatives. They are estimating 1.5 terrabytes of data now, and would expand to 3 terrabytes. No actual counts on images. They want to, of course, index each image as to content/date/etc. Does anyone have recommendations for software to do this? I can handle the hardware needed just fine, but need info on software packages.
Well, I haven't pushed Thumbs Plus to anywhere near this number of photos; but it can be configured to use an external SQL database (the default is the "Jet" database engine from Microsoft Access, which works fine for my own much smaller collection), so it shouldn't have any trouble with big collections. It handles keywords well I think. There's probably another tier of products above the one T+ and all the other ones I hear individual photographers talking about is in, more intended for stock houses than individual photographers, but I don't know anything about that. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
