Re: OT Writing an Article about F-Spot

[Sven Utcke <sven utcke gmx de>]

> > > >  Was it the first FOSS photo management application ?

> > > No clue, I *VERY* much doubt it.  I'd wager the "first FOSS photo
> > > management application" is long forgotten, and was probably circa
> > > the 1980s.  This is not a new category of applications.

> > Wikipedia claims:

> >  The first digital camera that was actually marketed commercially was
> >  sold in December of 1989 in Japan, the DS-X by Fuji

> > So before that, and probably for some years after, there would not
> > have been much need for a "photo management application".  Even xv
> > only dates back to the early 1990s.  And that's an early image
> > viewer and sort of rather crude editor, with hardly any decent
> > management functionality.
>
> We can get into a pedantic argument about what "photo management
> application" means! :)

So we could :-)

> Scanning physical images was possible prior to the digital camera;
> and there was software for storing as well as categorizing those
> images.  Scanners were popular in the 1990s prior to the wide-spread
> adoption of digital cameras.  I logged no shortage of hours standing
> at a flatbed scanner.

I actually paid student to do that :-)
But even though I've been in computer vision since the early 1990s
(using "framegrabbers" - I shudder to think how much money we spend on
those - and of course scanners, and the cameras that came with SGIs in
the mid-90s), I cannot remember any "photo management software" that
actually managed (rather than displayed and modified) images.

Can you?

Sven
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