Digital camera software

[relux]

Hello all,

Is ZoomBrowser the best option out there for downloading and connecting the camera with? Are there other options out there. Let me know what else you use and some other options.

Thanks!

[Wildman]

ZoomBrowser will crash on you... maybe not today... but someday. Download BreezeBrowser and try it. No database to get corrupted. I use a card reader to get the pictures off the card, BreezeBrowser to view pictures and Photoshop Elements to edit.

[photonoob]

I'm extremely happy with Adobe Photo Album.

[KCook]

Zoombrowser was plenty zoomy, but I kept stumbling when I tried to use its data management. My old computer cannot use the usual USB connection. So I grab the image files off the Flash card with a parallel card reader. The file utilities built into Windows then see the card as just another drive, and can copy the files to my ZIP drive easily. So just getting the image files into my computer is a breeze.

Besides porting the images into your computer, the other tasks for software will be editing individual images, organizing the image files into collections that you can easily retrieve images from, and building albums of various flavors. There are a GREAT many different ways to slice-and-dice these tasks. Here is an existing thread that goes into this a lot -

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8335

Some folks just burn CDs for file collections in some organized manner and leave it at that. Others use software to maintain a searchable index that tracks the actual location (volume) for each image. These managers are talked about in this article -

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,887373,00.asp

If a manager is what you would like to try, those have been discussed here as well -

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=9020

For my own manager I have now settled in with BR's Photo Archiver. I use PhotoShop for editing. At this point I may as well uninstall the old Zoombrowser!

Many many options, no short answer,
Kelly Cook

[xoul]

check cam2pc, its a nice software....hot pixel fix when you register

http://www.nabocorp.com/cam2pc/index.php

[oregonzs]

check out a free demo of PhotoLibrary at
http://www.PhotoLibrarySoftwaRE.COM/

and the Open Directory which has a list of Image Management Software at
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Graphics/Image_Cataloguing/

See these Reviews too.
http://www.naturephotographers.net/dfs0202-1.html

http://www.photosource.com/tools/software/

pete