PictSync group to standardize photo sharing
By Marc Perton 
posted February 24th 2006 8:00PM
posted February 24th 2006 8:00PM
Just when you thought the imaging industry couldn't roll out another alliance prior to next week's PMA conference, we've just gotten wind that a group of them have banded together as the PictSync Consortium, with the goal of creating standards to share photos and metadata among different devices. If it sounds like PictSync has a bit of overlap with two other recently unveiled groups, ImageLink and EverPlay -- which are working on, respectively, image sharing and metadata -- it should come as no surprise that the prime mover behind those two groups, Kodak, isn't a member of the PictSync group. Given those kinds of rivalries, we assume none of these consortia will actually develop anything really useful for consumers, and will just print lots of shiny holographic stickers with logos on them that they'll apply to retail boxes of cameras, printers and audio players.
Kinda funny ehy?
the camera in teh pic is a casio Z-40
and casio isnt a meber of the group
......
ok it aint so funny
apparently it's a bizarro world casio -- left-handed!
Obviously, photo sharing has been completely crippled without any standards for the past few years. Next they'll "invent" some sort of "extensible markup language" to contain the header information...
i would rather have them standardize the raw format then worry about picure sharing. just have one of the devices have a usb hub mode and use the usb storage media protocol...
PictSync photo sharing is the new trend of cameras.
transfering data is very good.
http://cheap-cameras-review.blogspot.com
Dear Blogers,
I regret to inform you but there is no drama between EveryPlay and PictSync. If you actually read either of the specifications you will notice that both are based on MPV, xml based metadata standard.
www.osta.org/mpv
This standard makes these specifications interoperable.
In addition, the specificaions address different applications (use cases). EverPlay addressed archiving, primarily recording to CD/DVD.
PictSync addresses sharing and realtime synchronisation. For example updating the photos in iPOD, SmartPhone or other PMP devices from cameras or memory cards.
Hope this makes it clear that both specificaitons are appropriate for the digital photo industrly.
Regards,
Felix