> > > > 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 -- __ _ _ __ __ __ / _` || ' \ \ \ / http://www.svenutcke.de/ \__, ||_|_|_|/_\_\ http://www.dr-utcke.de/ |___/ Key fingerprint = 6F F8 55 1C F9 E3 A8 F7 09 DF F7 2C 25 0C 54 53 _______________________________________________ f-spot-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
