> transfer photos off of my phone is not so easy.
If you have a Mac, then "Image Transfer" is what you are looking for. It allows to simply sync fotos and images as their raw files (original quality if so configured) to a directory.
From there you can do whatever you want with them (put them on multiple separate disks, upload them to galleries, strip jpg and distribute them etc.
You do miss out on face detection, but stuff like 'locations' can be easily done with the GPS data in the EXIF, just loop through your files and rip the details out of EXIF, store in DB and make a little interface for it et voila.
But yes, in the end, I would love to be able to say "store my shit at X" where X is my private colocated box, while still using apple's pretty cool photo management services.
Till then (which will never come ;) ) I just have the small 3CHF/month plan which gives 200GiB, which is good enough for 'the best photos of the last few months'.
PS: Indeed, one has to plug the phone into the computer and then do the copy/sync, but that also gives on the moment to run iTunes for a full backup, always a good idea just in case stuff breaks/goes-missing/etc.
If you have a Mac, then "Image Transfer" is what you are looking for. It allows to simply sync fotos and images as their raw files (original quality if so configured) to a directory.
From there you can do whatever you want with them (put them on multiple separate disks, upload them to galleries, strip jpg and distribute them etc.
You do miss out on face detection, but stuff like 'locations' can be easily done with the GPS data in the EXIF, just loop through your files and rip the details out of EXIF, store in DB and make a little interface for it et voila.
But yes, in the end, I would love to be able to say "store my shit at X" where X is my private colocated box, while still using apple's pretty cool photo management services. Till then (which will never come ;) ) I just have the small 3CHF/month plan which gives 200GiB, which is good enough for 'the best photos of the last few months'.
PS: Indeed, one has to plug the phone into the computer and then do the copy/sync, but that also gives on the moment to run iTunes for a full backup, always a good idea just in case stuff breaks/goes-missing/etc.