🎞 Analog

This project is a set of utilities helping me getting organized with scans.

Part of it might look like a rebuilt of a catalog. Goal is to not have to rely on lightroom all the time.

Current Commands

$ analog
Commands:
  analog catalog:build                                 # Build symlinks to rolls per camera and per film
  analog exif:read [ROLL_NUMBER]                       # Read Exif from Roll
  analog exif:write [ROLL_NUMBER]                      # Write Exif from Roll
  analog offline:build [ROLL_NUMBER]                   # Create an offline HTML contact sheet per folder
  analog photos:rename [ROLL_NUMBER]                   # Rename roll pictures based on information
  analog rolls:details [ROLL_NUMBER]                   # See Roll details
  analog rolls:overview [YEAR]                         # See all
  analog rolls:rename [ROLL_NUMBER]                    # Rename roll based on information
  analog rolls:stats [YEAR]                            # See some stats

All the commands taking a [ROLL_NUMBER] also accept --all to be run on every roll

Config

Create a ~/.analog file with

path: /path/to/scans

Where /path/to/scans has the cameras.yml and films.yml and a yearly structure

Folders Structures

Photos/
Photos/raws/2021/20210101-... # This one goes developed in Lightroom or is already developed. 
Photos/scans/2021/20210101-...
Photos/scans/2021/20210101-.../index.md
🔗 Cameras/Leica M6/2021/20210101-.../
🔗 Films/Kodak - Portra 400/2021/20210101-...

Frontmatter index files

---
camera: leica-m6
film: portra-400
format: 135
scanned_at: 2020-11-30
exported: true
lab: mori-film
roll_number: 20x17
themes:
- cars
- beach
- surf
- personal
---
# My summer vacation
Roll story

Frontmatter format is YAML.
Mandatory keys:
- camera
- film
Allowed keys:
- lenses/lens if only one
- themes
- iso

Folder structure is built based on the information we have in the files here. Camera and Film might become slugs from 2 files

those would be lists of cameras slugs and information

If we are not using negativelabpro, we might also push exif information to the files in the format

Inpsiration

Frontmatter and index.md files come from my use of Hugo/Jekyll.
Exif data comes from me wanting something organized without touching anything

Ideas

Tag folders with https://brettterpstra.com/2017/08/22/tagging-files-from-the-command-line/

Contact sheet command

❯ find 2021 -type d | xargs -I {} montage -verbose -pointsize 10 -background '#fff' -fill 'gray' -define jpeg:size=200x200 -geometry 200x200+2+2 -auto-orient '{}/*.jpg' {}/sheet.jpg

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