Photo Mechanic
Aimed at professional photographers, Photo Mechanic provides exceptional control for applying "IPTC stationery" (a template containing details of city, state, photographer's name, copyright, and so on) and XMP metadata. It is also extremely fast, with a multithreaded architecture to keep itself a few steps ahead of the user. It offers full-screen viewing, side-by-side comparison, scalable contact sheets, photo tagging, sorting into folders, back-up facilities, and single-step features that allow you to combine several operations to speed the workflow.
Comment
Although its functionality is limited to browsing, sorting and key-wording, Photo Mechanic is so efficient that it is the viewer-of-choice for thousands of photographers. They particularly like its time-saving features, such as being able to copy to two different destinations (or drives) at the same time, and its ability to accept data from multiple cards on multiple readers.
Photo Mechanic's Batch Captioning facility is first-rate, thumbnail display speed is almost instant, and it can open most RAW files although it does not fully convert them. It has stiff competition from Apple's Aperture and Adobe Lightroom.
Tech info
- OS: Windows XP onward; Mac OS X
- Price level: Approx. $150
Camera Bits
Founded in 1996 by Dennis Walker, Camera Bits is a pioneering provider of software for professional digital photographers. Early developments included color artifact and noise filter Quantum Mechanic, moiré pattern reducer Moiré Eraser, and banding noise filter Band Aide.
From the same vendor:
- Tutorials on Photo Mechanic
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