[eichin]

Sure if you're (like me) a weirdo that uses an actual camera :-) Most people use phone cameras that go directly to $BIG_CLOUD and everything else is More Work.

(Personally I use rsync (FolderSync) from the phone to a home server and pull things into my (kphotoalbum-oriented) workflow that way. But it's more about personal control and paranoia than being something that would be useful to random people for whom vendor lock-in is actually a threat...)

[masneyb]

These days, I only use a phone camera (Pixel 6 Pro) and it is configured to not upload my photos to the cloud. Every few days, I plug in a USB cable, move all of my photos off the phone to my computer, curate the photos (i.e. delete ones I don't want), and add them to my photo manager.

Curation is key to avoid having a mess down the road since I may take 10-15 photos of the same scene, and only save the 1 or 2 that turned out the best.