Photography

I have been taking digital photos since 2000 - initially on Canon PowerShot S10 pocket camera, later various larger DSLRs, and (mostly) nowadays also using camera phones. The software to deal with the pictures has never been that great though. Ancient history (2000-2005) I vaguely remember that in 2000-2005 I mostly dumped the .jpg files to various places. It is a wonder that I never managed to lose any significant photos that I cared about, as at the time I was not particularly meticulous about backups. ...

Background I am getting out of Lightroom ecosystem because its sync system simply sucks. During the last year, the sync has failed three times (and I use it rarely, so it is often), and resync takes almost day because the system is slow (with ~20k pictures, I don’t even want to know how much it would take if I synced my full library). Due to that, I decided to switch to simpler model. Immich in my Kubernetes cluster with all my recent mobile photos. Immich automatic upload does not support selecting window of pictures to upload - and I do not really want to have my old mobile pictures in my new ‘recent pictures only’ Immich test installation). ...