Since that time I have used many systems, including some specifically for photographers. I was the Dev Manager for a very large document management system that manages hundreds of thousands of documents for large enterprise across many industries.
Exposing the database to users through the UI can be polished as the program matures along with constructive user feedback. Building a catalog program is not easy with the most important part being the database. For a standalone program it's worth noting all but FotoStation no longer exist!Ĭamera Bits advantage is they are a nimble team, agile before it was even a term, with a very customer focussed outlook. Then Aperture disrupted the whole market. The latter were more visually appealing and attracted photographers. The former few of those applications felt like Excel, both in UI and UX. The DAM applications that struck a cord with photographers were those that had a clean, can I say "Apple" design aesthetic? As digital photography grew many of us looked at existing DAM programs from Canto, Photools, Fotoware, Extensis, iView Multimedia, etc. I've been an alpha and a beta tester for image cataloging applications for two and half decades. The Photo Mechanic UI is quite intuitive and existing users will feel right at home. I think Camera Bits are heading in the right direction. Other than LR, I have no image catalog usage experience so I also have no idea what iView Media used to offer in this respect. But that's what we are here to help with as well filtering is not yet as powerful as it should – and will be) and there are still some (known) bugs as well. Yes, there is still missing functionality (e.g. But now I find I can do most of the tasks I expect to be able to do from within the single catalog mode window, switching between the browse and filter tabs to be able to get to the images I want quickly (PM's catalog is quick as soon as it has fully finished building its image database). Most of this should be solvable though (for one there's tons of useless spacing in many of the dialogs), perhaps in the future we will even see a single catalog mode, one that abolishes all the required fluff of being able to select (from) multiple catalogs.Īs said I've been working with the catalog for some time now and it took me a while to get used to most of it (still learning, I'm sure). I don't think your feedback is “lost” and I am sure if you provide feedback in a way that describes what you want in a clear way, then Camerabits will listen.īecause Camerabits took the (imo bold and radical) approach to support multiple catalogs simultaneously, the GUI design took a usability hit.
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