Prof. D. I. Loizos, the author of FotoArchive, is not a computer programmer by profession. He is an historian, an expert in historical computing and a self-taught computer analyst and programmer. He has been involved in computer analysis and programming since the late 1980s, in the heroic ages of DOS and IBM(TM) basica programming language. He is also very much interested in amateur digital photography.

FotoArchive began its life in 1998 as an educational piece of software to assist the author in his teaching of college history courses. It was used to catalog, display and annotate scanned or captured digital images of up to 2 megapixels in size. However recent technological developments in digital photography changed the way images are captured, stored and printed. A typical compact digital camera captures a 3-6 megapixels image and high-end dSLPs go all the way up to 14 megalixels. Also, archaeologists, arthistorians, and historians use more and more digital cameras that produce large size photos. Consequently, the time was ripe to redesign FotoArchive and make it suitable to handle digital camera images. As of version 3.1.0 (2006) FotoArchive has become a Digital Camera Images (DCI) Viewer, Album Maker, and Annotator.

If you use FotoArchive do not hesitate to e-mail the author at dilos@anistor.gr

Prof. D. I. Loizos's home page (in Modern Greek and English): http://users.hol.gr/~dilos/loizos.htm

Athens, Greece, 1 November 2005