[Leica] Photo database software suggestions?

[Leo Wesson]

Lightroom is handy but it's not capable enough for all of Kyle's needs.
It's not really a database, it's more of an image management system.  It's
a good place to start and populate your database from LR.

Leo Wesson
Photographer/Videographer
817.733.9157
www.leowesson.com

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com>
wrote:

> I must say that I think that you would find Lightroom hard to beat.
>
> Gerry
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 3 Feb 2016, at 16:11, kyle cassidy on the LUG <leicaslacker at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Folks —
> >
> > I have, as you may imagine, 20 some years of photo archives.
> >
> > Right now I have them broken down by years in folders like:
> >
> > 2001
> >    2001-01-01 New years day photos
> >            L0010101.jpg
> >            L0010102.jpg
> >    2001-01-02 bigfoot sighting in new hampshire
> >            L222222.jpg
> >            L222223.jpg
> >            L222225.jpg
> >
> > etc.
> >
> > I want to have a searchable database that allows me
> >
> >    a) to add metadata to files and allow me to search that metadata.
> >    b) automate identification of people through facial recognition or
> import data like that
> >    c) allow me to grant varying levels of access to this database to
> other people (mark
> >        some directories with different permissions, etc.)
> >    d) Not vanish in 10 years leaving me with a useless database
> >    e) have a solution to the fact that I’m going to have dozens of files
> with the same filename
> >
> >
> > Cost isn’t an object, but functionally is a must.
> >
> > Any advice?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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