Re: editing photo filenames

Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:

badgolferman wrote on Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:22:13 -0000 (UTC) :
 

Which of the DCIM file systems do you think is better engineered for
users?

 
As far as I'm concerned, Windows is by far the most user-friendly
operating system.  They tried porting that over to the Windows Phone
but unfortunately it didn't work out.  Incidentally, my wife had a
Windows Phone and she loved it.

 
Windows is user friendly to me also, and far more so than Linux is, but
that may simply be that I've been using both for a few decades now.
 
As for the Windows phone, I never owned one, but I did have all the phones
prior, such as the pull-out-antenna flip phones and the button dial phones
and the Kyocera "smart" phones and the blackberry before I bought my first
iPads, iPhones, tablets and Android phones.
 
Android has many open source apps for taking photos which are superior to
anything Apple can offer because Apple limits you to one design team.
 
That Apple limits users to the way a single design team operates is
probably one of teh major reasons Apple is still using decades-old
technology and naming conventions for their camera apps.
 
Literally, Apple is using the technology that SLRs used when they first
went digital decades agao - and Apple never bothered to improve that.
 
This is why you see in my screenshots an arcane primitive naming
conventions of absurdly named Apple101 folders and IMG_2753_PNG files.
 
   <https://i.postimg.cc/RVdVKS8q/Apple-Ipad.jpg>
   <https://i.postimg.cc/PJ4hWyS0/Apple-Iphone.jpg>
 
When you compare Apple's absurdly primitive naming conventions, you realize
instantly the pitfalls and foibles of entrusting everything to a single
design team which doesn't have any internal competition.
 
Had Apple users been allowed the luxury of competition in camera apps, the
ridiculously primitive ancient naming conventions would be gone long ago.
 
Had there been camera-app competition, you could name your photos any way
you'd like to name them, such as how Samsung names then out of the box.
 
   <https://i.postimg.cc/zfgrt8dC/Samsung.jpg>]
 
By default, Samsung names the files by the date and the time.
   20240428_083005.jpg (taken at 8:30:05am on April 28, 2024)
 
What do you think about my observation that because there is no competition
for Apple camera apps, and because there is intense competition for Android
camera apps (such as the Google GCam camera app), the Apple camera apps are
twenty years behind Android in basic functionality?
 
To further show how the Apple camera app is decades behind Android in
functionality, just look at what the free ad free open source apps do.
   <https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencamera/>
   <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera>
   <https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/>
 
Features
 Option to auto-level so your pictures are perfectly level no matter what.
 Expose your camera's functionality: support for scene modes,
  color effects, white balance, ISO, exposure compensation/lock,
  selfie with "screen flash", HD video and more.
 Handy remote controls: timer (with optional voice countdown),
  auto-repeat mode (with configurable delay).
 Option to take photo remotely by making a noise.
 Configurable volume keys and user interface.
 Upside-down preview option for use with attachable lenses.
 Overlay a choice of grids and crop guides.
 Optional GPS location tagging (geotagging) of photos and videos;
  for photos this includes compass direction
  (GPSImgDirection, GPSImgDirectionRef).
 Apply date and timestamp, location coordinates, and custom text
  to photos; store date/time and location as video subtitles (.SRT).
 Option to remove device exif metadata from photos.
 Panorama, including for front camera.
 Support for HDR (with auto-alignment and ghost removal)
  and Exposure Bracketing.
 Support for Camera2 API: manual controls (with optional focus assist);
  burst mode; RAW (DNG) files; camera vendor extensions; slow motion video;  
  log profile video.
 Noise reduction (including low light night mode) and Dynamic range
  optimisation modes.
 Options for on-screen histogram, zebra stripes, focus peaking.
 Focus bracketing mode.
 Completely free, and no ads in the app.
 Open Source.
 
If there was competition in Apple camera apps, then the Apple design team
who is probably not even a single person anymore, would have pressure on
them to make the ridiculously primitive Apple camera app better.
 
What do you think of my argument (see above) that with competition (for
Android camera apps), the consumers get better functionality in the end.
 
And what do you think of my argument that, since there isn't any
competition for the Apple camera app, that Apple camera app ends up being
absurdly primitive in its almost complete lack of modern functionality.
 
The consumer is the loser.
 

I don’t disagree that more options are always better, but I’d have to wait
and see the rebuttals from Alan, Alan Browne, Jolly Roger, Hemidactylus,
Jorge Lorenz, Your Name before I can make an informed decision. They say
Apple “just works” and since I don’t know how to make it work the way I
want then maybe they have a better idea.