DsD
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Okay, first off, the Z9 has called me out shooting at 20 fps. I have been sloppy/lax at photo management duties. In the D-750 days I was a deliberate, controlled shooter with little need to look over hundreds of photos at day's end. Those days are over now with the Z9, while still trying to be disciplined.
So, I'm looking at ingest software and need good counsel (that's you folk). I searched the forum for ingest/culling threads and found a couple. Seems most here like PM, FRV and FastStone. I downloaded FastStone and have already run into a snag based on what I THINK I want to do. Likely out of ignorance in understanding basic database manipulation etc. I don't see how I can sort the files by year only, in FastStone. Plus, the only documentation/manual I can find on FastStone goes back to 2011. Perhaps the other ingest programs will do this.
I need to start from scratch and go back through my picture file folders (reorganizing them also) and thin the herd, quickly. Which of these ingest programs will let me open a folder and then SORT by date shot, allowing me to drill down by YEAR first and then month and day? Thus, I can then select those pictures and save to a newly created sub-folder by year or year and month accordingly. From there I can take my first pass at culling out the junk and then a second pass entering all the meta-data wanted and tagging.
By the way, I am truly an amateur photographer (albeit for over 40 years), but ... I have an annoying habit of getting way to far into the weeds prior to purchasing "stuff". I want to try adhering to the KISS principle here, if possible.
Hope the above makes sense, as I am a terrible communicator. I appreciate your time reading this and for sage comments.
So, I'm looking at ingest software and need good counsel (that's you folk). I searched the forum for ingest/culling threads and found a couple. Seems most here like PM, FRV and FastStone. I downloaded FastStone and have already run into a snag based on what I THINK I want to do. Likely out of ignorance in understanding basic database manipulation etc. I don't see how I can sort the files by year only, in FastStone. Plus, the only documentation/manual I can find on FastStone goes back to 2011. Perhaps the other ingest programs will do this.
I need to start from scratch and go back through my picture file folders (reorganizing them also) and thin the herd, quickly. Which of these ingest programs will let me open a folder and then SORT by date shot, allowing me to drill down by YEAR first and then month and day? Thus, I can then select those pictures and save to a newly created sub-folder by year or year and month accordingly. From there I can take my first pass at culling out the junk and then a second pass entering all the meta-data wanted and tagging.
By the way, I am truly an amateur photographer (albeit for over 40 years), but ... I have an annoying habit of getting way to far into the weeds prior to purchasing "stuff". I want to try adhering to the KISS principle here, if possible.
Hope the above makes sense, as I am a terrible communicator. I appreciate your time reading this and for sage comments.