on 9/10/02 11:28 PM, Scott Gomez at scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Nope... but I have just completed looking at a variety of "photo exposure
> note taking" software for the Palm OS (all I could find, actually, which was
> about 5 or 6 offerings) and can categorically state that as far as I am
> concerned, no one that was actually ever out there taking photos and trying
> to USE it was the writer of any of it. It's pretty uniformly junk.
>
> My particular wish list?
>
> Enter the data for a roll, such as length (12, 24, 36 ?? exposures), ASA,
> film type and then the software:
>
> 1. AUTONUMBERS exposures! Duh, automation by a computer, what a concept...
> Oh, yeah, and it should start counting at "1" not "Zero."
> 2. Allows the selection of a previous entered lens (such as a 135/2.8) and
> then offers, via radio buttons, only the stops that lens has.
> 3. Allows configuration and subsequent selection of exposure compensation
> setting
> 4. Has a short note field
> 5. Defaults to the current date and time.
> 6. Includes configuration settings for various camera bodies, with
> subsequent default settings available once a body is selected for a roll.
> 7. Includes a filter list
> 8. Includes an option to provide a user configurable Roll ID "number," and
> then sequences that number automagically.
>
> There's one that's *close* (I'll have to double-check the name of it) but
> NONE that are inviting/conducive to use by not requiring a lot of ridiculous
> data-entry navigation due to dumb interface design.
>
> ---
> Scott Gomez
Scott -- All of your desired features sound pretty good, and also seem like
they are straightforward to implement in the database programs I'm passingly
familiar with (dBase, Paradox, Access, Filemaker) but I'm no programmer. I
suspect that there are some on the list who could create such a program...
but its an expensive time-consuming hobby, and there's probably no market
other than the everlasting gratitude and glory in the hearts of Zuikoholics
everywhere. Even that's probably not enough incentive to get someone to
spend dozens of hours creating the program... If any of the programs you
looked at are shareware, maybe an email, with your suggestions, to the
author would pay off in the future...
--
Jim Brokaw
OM-1's, -2's, -4's, (no -3's yet) and no OM-oney...
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