10 About
We, Cora and Frank, are photo amateurs (nowadays called: enthusiastic amateurs) and (semi)-professional software engineers.
If you would like an impression amateurs who you are dealing with, feel free to have a look on our website (German site) TigerGraphics and our galleries at JAlbum.
The name PFotos is a composition of the German word for paw Pfote and the German word for images Fotos’. The paw and the name Tiger Graphics came up many years ago as we started with software development.
It was inspired by the book ’Oh wie schön ist Panama’ written by Janosch.
The story how we came up to develop PFotos is written down below.
PFotos is fully developed in our free time, mainly in the christmas holidays 2017.
Thus, further add ons and bug fixes will take some time (at least until next christmas).
So feel free to do it by yourself under the GNU public license.
If you have any questions, please contact us by eMail (no social media available).
10.1 PFotos - how it began …
It was in 1992 as we coded the software packages CEMoS1 and MoViE2 at the university.
25 years later, in 2017, a completely different problem appeared.
We planned to visit the Essen Motorshow again after 2013 and 2015 and some questions raised….
Which cameras and lenses shall we take with us?
Which ones did we take with us the last times?
Some hours struggeling with Matlab and 1000 dirty words later we had the result in the paws:
But gathering those information should be quite more easy, more universal and comfortable.
Thus, we remembered the good old times at the university: ’Let’s do it in Tcl/Tk’.
Short sketches outline the project and in November 2017 we started:
By the way: the images from the Motorshow are quite nice:
