How is that different from film? Don't you have to look at prints or
slides to know what they are? Don't you at least label the box of
slides or packet of prints? You can do that as you download your
digital pictures. Don't you have an image browser to make it easy to
look at your images? You are not opening each one separately are you?
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On Mar 13, 2005, at 1:09 PM, Walt Wayman wrote:
> Here goes, the #2 gripe:
>
> I've probably had a digital camera longer than 90 percent of the
> people on this list, a Camedia C-2000Z. It's been "in house" since
> November of 1999. Since then, we've (mostly me) taken probably about
> 500 photos with it. They come out of the camera as a file with a
> meaningless gobbledygook name made up of numbers. So, am I supposed
> to rename every one with something meaningful, a name that'll jog my
> memory five years later so I'll instantly say to myself, "Oh, yeah,
> self, this is the picture of the female Martian eating a peach"?
>
> So, with only this paltry number of digital photos taken, I today
> don't know what most of them are and don't have the patience to wade
> through them to find out, nor do I have the inclination to waste my
> rapidly decreasing brain power by thinking up memorable names for
> them.
>
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