I've finally found, and have been using for the past couple of weeks, a photo album software suite that I think may do the trick. I've been uploading recent photos with it; we'll see how it goes.

I haven't converted the old albums over to the new one, which is annoying. This is an ongoing process. In any case, you have a number of choices. The first option is the most recent -- the new stuff.

About the cameras: I've always been an SLR man; I have a 35mm Pentax that I bought when I was in the Army (ca. 1986). I loved that camera. But it didn't have auto focus (and I can't focus, for love or money), and it was a film camera. I hate film. I mean, I love the quality, but I can't develop film, I have no patience to wait for the film to return, and I've had rolls destroyed by developers. On top of all this, my best work is in black and white, but I like color photos as well, sometimes. This poses a problem -- I either waste film, or have to shoot a whole roll before switching formats. And I simply refuse to carry multiple bodies around with me. SLRs are bulky enough without having to carry around two of them. So I jumped on the digital bandwagon early. Digital isn't better than film -- yet; but it is better for me.

I started with the Nikon CoolPix 900. It took nice photos, but was very slow, and had terrible battery efficiency... I could take four or five shots on a set of four AAs, if I took them quickly after turning on the camera.

My next camera was a Canon Powershot G1. This is a truely beautiful camera. I still love this camera, and it is holding its resale price well, even though the more recent G2 and G3 are available. The G series does everything, from short film clips, to wonderful photos with great optics, and it has a great user interface. My only complaints -- and they really are minor complaints -- is that they are large, for point-and-shoot cameras, and they suffer that misfeature that all consumer digital cameras suffer from -- a long startup time, and almost unacceptible shutter lag.

I couldn't get into doing serious photography with either of these digitals. Changing the features was tedious, and the shutter lag bothered me... and, despite being a futurist, I can't get used to things like electric zooming.

The Powershot and I had a couple of years of marital bliss, and then Canon came out with the EOS 10D.

Hubba, hubba! This is a 6.3MP SLR that takes regular Canon EF lenses. It is solid, has great battery life, and takes great photos. It has a bunch of nice features, such as auto-detecting when the photo was taken in portait mode, a shutter speed that is practically instantaneous (to a prosumer like myself), and a well designed interface. I'm in love, again.

All of the photos taken with this camera that appear in these photo albums have been scaled way down, to about 768x512. The normal resolution of the images is 3072x2048. I may upgrade to a larger format camera in the future, but I didn't blow up any of my film photos to a size that this camera can't handle, so I'll probably stick with the 10D for a while.

Oh, and I do plan on digitizing my film stock. I'm still working on the details of that.