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Originally Posted by walwyn
I've not found a decent cataloging program. Whilst they all seem to record the crap details that is of no interest asa/shutter, focal length, etc, none of them can answer simple queries like "Find all the photos of beetles in Northamptonshire", well perhaps they can but the UI to input the required tagging data is hopelessly cumbersome, and they all mostly fall down unless you have the entire collection available. IOW they won't work if you've off loaded the data to DVD or an external HD.
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Lightroom will do all the above and much more, I don't think you could find a better catalogue program anywhere. Even if you don't need the rest of the program (which is also outstanding in v2) Lightroom is a superb database and it doesn't take very long to import and sort your pictures.
Your query above would be simple, I don't need to type "find all photos of beetles in Northamptonshire" but simply type in "Northamptonshire, beetles".
I take many thousands of pictures of cyclists in different events throughout the year and I can honestly say it takes me seconds to find any image. Plus it can be set up so that images written to CD/DVD's (and external hard drives!) can also be catalogued, a feature I also use along with auto backing up my images when importing them.