Digital Camera Copy is a simple program born out of need. I love taking lots of pictures with my digital camera, but hate moving those files around and cataloging them. The software that comes with the camera is lame, and I don't want to store my precious family pictures in software that will soon not be supported. I want to store my images in a standard image file format, in a normal file system, so that any program capable of viewing these files can do so. I also want it all organized!

That is why I wrote this software. Rather than move hundreds of pictures off the camera by hand and organize them every time I take pictures, I created this program to do it for me. Now I don't dread taking hundreds of pictures because processing and organizing them is done for me. This program reads all the files on your digital camera or memory card and copies them to a folder that you specify. While copying, it creates a full folder structure starting with the year, then the month, followed by the day of the month and optional event information, and finally an incrementing sequence number. The file date and time stamp of the newly copied file is set to the date and time of the original file.

For instance, say you have a digital camera that appears under Windows to be a normal drive, call it drive letter M. You have 200 pictures on the camera to process, all of them taken in May of 2006 while on vacation in Florida. You set the output directory to be D:\Photos. When processed, all files will be copied from drive M and stored in D:\Photos\2001\May followed by the day in May and the words 'Vacation in Florida', and finally a sequential number. The photos will remain in the same image format, for instance, JPEG or TIF. Several options exist for how this folder structure is built and how files and folders are named. There is even an advanced option for those familiar with .NET string formatting.

While copying, this program can also create preview images. These are usually smaller and more highly compressed versions of your full size pictures. These preview images can be stored in a sub-folder of the normal output file location, or a totally different base folder used only for preview images, such as a web server location.

I currently have 3 different versions of Digital Camera Copy available. Version 3 is a complete rewrite of version 2, and should be considered an upgrade for most users. Version 4 however is a very slimmed down, command line only (no graphical interface), version that is not as capable as version 3, but run on Windows and Macintosh. For more details click the appropriate link below:

Digital Camera Copy 2 (Older C++ Version)

Digital Camera Copy 3 (Latest .NET Based Graphical Version)

Digital Camera Copy 4 (Windows and Macintosh Command Line Only Version)