EXIF sorting

zoggop

One thing I would really like to see: sorting by EXIF dates (photo capture date). And if you do that, sorting by other EXIF parameters could be useful too.
It was something I had in my gallery cgi before I had to trash it, and something I've never seen in any other gallery cgi.

dryan

my initial thought is you would need to load the exif data into the database to do that, but i'm sure that it could be done without that step. how would you handle files without exif?

zoggop

The way I had IG do it was to default the capture date to when you upload the image if it did not find EXIF data (it saved the capture date into the database). If needed, one could also change the capture date manually.

reidab

I've got my install storing the EXIF capture date in the database and providing access to the other EXIF data through template tags. However, I'm waiting to see how Tristan is going to implement sorting before actually making the data useful.

sharonkubo

EXIF date sorting - I second that emotion! - thanks for keeping it in your sights. I prefer to show pics chronologically, in the order they were snapped in the real world. (*Camera junkies might also like a feature I've seen on fotki.com: ability to display EXIF info alongside the photo.) Many thanks.

thinkdreams

@Sharonkubo-

Currently zenphoto doesn't have built in features for EXIF (yet). A couple of us have cobbled together a working implementation of EXIF capabilities (minus the ability to sort by EXIF). Tris is working hard on getting features like EXIF, plugin functionality, and more in the core product, but it isn't quite there yet. In the meantime, nose around on the forums here, and you will probably be able to find a working EXIF display module. I've got one working on my zenphoto implementation. (http://www.bushwoodworking.com/zenphoto). If you drill down to the image view, there is an EXIF choice below the image. If you click on that, it will show you EXIF information about the image.

Of course, like I said, this is just a hold over until Tris gets his EXIF stuff integrated.

trisweb

What Craig said :-)

I'm going to dedicate a few pre-planned hours a week to zenphoto from here on out, just FYI. Should free my mind from my other work and let me focus.

EXIF is up there on the list, and it will definitely be cached in the database, then also editable and sortable (and savable back to the image along with title and description if the library I end up using supports it).