Roll

What a roll was shot on, when, and with which body: three facts about the film, never guessed from a scan.

Film stock

What a roll was shot on, picked by hand from a catalogue of thirty-four stocks, never guessed from a scan's EXIF. Once picked it can be changed but never unpicked.

More about Film stock

On the Library surface, in the Roll part of it.

Carried by a preset
Nothing to carry: it is a gesture or a reading, not a setting.
  • The picker groups thirty-four stocks by brand; a click picks one, and its canister appears on every row of that roll.
  • Once per roll, on import: the fact you most often know and most often lose.
  • A stock not in the list: pick the nearest and say so in the roll's name.
  • Picking a stock changes no setting; the balance keys measure the frame, not the label.
  • Reaches the export as the default Film of each frame's EXIF line, where a frame can still pick another.

Shot date

When the roll was actually shot, as three fields (month, day, year), kept only for organising. It changes nothing else: not a frame's capture date, its place in the feed, or the export.

More about Shot date

On the Library surface, in the Roll part of it.

Carried by a preset
Nothing to carry: it is a gesture or a reading, not a setting.
  • Different from a photo's own capture date (when the scan was made), which the library uses to group frames into rolls.
  • Left empty, the block defaults to the roll's first photo; a key beside the fields clears a set date.
  • Written into the roll's own record, never onto a photo, so an export never picks it up; the Date field is typed separately, per frame.
  • Useful for a roll scanned long after it was shot, which is most rolls, and for finding a roll later by when it was shot.

Camera body

The camera the roll was shot in, typed by hand rather than read from a scan's own EXIF. It becomes the default Camera on each frame's exported EXIF line.

More about Camera body

On the Library surface, in the Roll part of it.

Carried by a preset
Nothing to carry: it is a gesture or a reading, not a setting.
  • One free field, kept with the roll's record; nothing else depends on it.
  • Once per roll, alongside the stock and shot date, while you still remember.
  • Body only: the lens is a fact of the frame, typed beside each export preview.

Project and box

Read-only summaries: every stock among a project's photos, counted by photo, and among a box's rolls, nested boxes included.

Film stock summaries

Two read-only blocks that count rather than ask: Film Stocks on a project, tallied by photo, and Filmstock in this box on a box, tallied across nested boxes.

More about Film stock summaries

On the Library surface, in the Project and box part of it.

Carried by a preset
Nothing to carry: it is a gesture or a reading, not a setting.
  • Both simply read the stock already picked on each roll; to change what they show, pick a stock on the roll itself.
  • On a project: a canister and a count per stock, or a note that none is set yet.
  • On a box: a summary with no count, covering every roll in it and in any nested boxes.
  • A missing canister in either list is a roll still waiting to be labelled.

Import

What the library accepts and what it never does with your originals.

Import

Brings in RAW, TIFF, JPEG, PNG and HEIC files without ever copying, moving or altering the originals. Every photo opens as a flat, untouched negative, with nothing detected or preset yet.

More about Import

On the Library surface, in the Import part of it.

Carried by a preset
Nothing to carry: it is a gesture or a reading, not a setting.
  • A picked file passes whatever its format; an expanded folder yields only its RAWs, so exported TIFFs and JPEGs are not reimported as duplicates.
  • Originals are never copied or moved; each file's facts live in a sidecar beside it, and the index is a disposable, rebuildable cache.
  • A moved file can be relinked by its fingerprint; do not move a folder afterwards without relinking.
  • Which decoder reads a file is decided on its bytes, never its extension.
  • Import RAWs from a camera scan (linear, fixed white balance) or sixteen-bit TIFFs from a scanner; an eight-bit source is announced, not refused.