Picture this, a woman with a camera is walking purposely through a city park, heading towards a formal rose garden. She's an enthusiatic amateur photographer and the anticipation is becoming evident.
She reaches the garden, attaches her close-up lenses, pulls out her notebook, and starts setting up her shots. Watching her move from flower to flower is painful.
She starts by taking her photo, then toggling the viewfinder for the image number, then she puts down the camera, picks up her notebook and writes down the number along with the flower name. She doesn't need to write down her camera settings because the exif information is saved automatically.
Now this is where it starts to get exciting, the clouds start to roll in. Thinking rain is imminent, she hurriedly moves from flower to flower neglecting to write down the pertinent info.
At home later that day she copies her new photos to her computer, and diligently starts to rename the pictures according to their flower name. Alas, she isn't able to complete the project. Imagine if she was on holiday and could never return to get those details.
Unfortunately this story is probably all too common, and perhaps the designers of camera's should invent some quick and easy way of captioning photo's in realtime. Maybe the designers of our image formats should work together with camera designers to incorporate a short soundbyte into each photo. That way I could press a button after taking my picture and record a name or location.
Think of the potential, and corporations should love the idea because overnight we introduce obsolescence into all existng cameras.
