Virtual film roll for grouping and storing digital images

摘要

A method, electronic device and archival storage system group digital images into a respective virtual fill roll (VFR) group. The method tags a digital image with a group tag. The group tag identifies the digital image as a member of a respective virtual film roll (VFR) group of digital images. The electronic device includes a computer program that includes instructions that implement applying the group tag to a digital image captured by the electronic device. The digital image archival storage system includes an image digitizer and an archival storage device. One or both of the digitizer and the storage device include at least a portion of a computer program. The computer program includes instructions that implement applying the group tag to the digital image captured by the image digitizer.