Do you miss camera rolls, too?

Question

Understandably events took the place of camera rolls and perhaps how you view them boils down to a matter of semantics, but I really, really, really miss camera rolls in iPhoto. At the very least ...
Why am I unable to delete an event in iPhoto? Unless I am wrong—is there a way to delete an event without deleting the photos from the library that make up the said event?
The fact of the matter is that the one random photo that I took of a shoe with my iPhone yesterday hardly constitutes an event. I take a lot of random pictures with my iPhone. Some of which come out beautiful and I wish to preserve for future reference. Of course one could make an album, but that still does not dismiss the fact that events go awry.
The simple solution would be for Apple to grant users the ability to fully manage what constitutes an event. Personally, I would rather put in the work to hand-select the photos that make up the "birthday parties", "holiday", "apple store openings", but why make that selection for me? The automation was supposed to help with organization, not makes for more of an organizational nightmare.
Additionally, I understand I could ignore Events in my sidebar altogether, but again, that still does not dismiss the fact that it will never be organized—in turn, if I want true events, I will have to manually make albums.
Anyone else feel the same way, or am I just OCD?

Answer 1

Roll back in the forum to - oh, three years ago - for a fuller discussion on this. Camera Rolls last appeared in iPhoto 6. At the time there were those who complained about the functionality and those who complained about the word.
Events and Rolls are functionally the same apart from one difference:
A Roll was an arbitrary grouping of photos based on when they were imported.
An Event is an arbitrary grouping of photos based on when they were shot.
Why am I unable to delete an event in iPhoto? Unless I am wrong—is there a way to delete an event without deleting the photos from the library that make up the said event?
Just like Rolls. You couldn't delete Rolls without deleting their content either. Rolls and Events are a view of the Library. Just like Rolls, every photo is in an Event. If you want to delete an Event either a: Delete the pics within or b: move the pics within to another Event. Just like Rolls.
The fact of the matter is that the one random photo that I took of a shoe with my iPhone yesterday hardly constitutes an event.
Don't get hung up on a Word. It's only 5 letters of marketing to describe a group of photos taken at the same time. An Event is a folder with some pics. That's all. With a bit of practise, you can train yourself to think "bucket" or "folder" or "shoebox" instead of Event.
Folks used complain that pics they took in January were in the same Roll as pics they took in September, just because they hadn't imported in between.
The simple solution would be for Apple to grant users the ability to fully manage what constitutes an event.
But they do. You can move photos to other Events. Merge them. Create new ones. All the things you could do with... Rolls. In other words, all you have to do is merge any new Events created when you import to have... a Roll with a fancy icon.
Like Rolls, they're quite limited too. A photo can be in only one Event without duplicating the file and so on.
Events are for people who can't be bothered organising. It's simple, date-based and requires no thought. So, for such folks, Events are helpful.
For other folks there are all the other tools: Albums, Keywords, Smart Albums etc etc etc.
I use Events simply as big buckets of Photos: Spring 08, July - Nov 06 are typical Events in my Library. For organising: I use keywords and Smart Albums extensively.
Regards
TD