Jon,
I'm not sure that there is a perfect system. I have tried several ways.
What I have found is that they are time consuming. What I have settled on
lately is scanning all images and organizing them by roll and frame number.
Scan size allows for a reasonable 4 X 6. Anything I really like also gets
scanned for 8 X 10 and stored in a *full size* folder. Then I have a piece
of software that creates thumbnails of all pics and gives me an Explorer
view so that I can quickly move from roll to roll. This is then archived to
CD. The negatives are put in pages and stored in binders.
Unfortunately, either you take a lot of time with a system of sorts or you
somewhat *lose* everything. In some respects, slides can be handy because
you can throw away most of them and only keep the really good stuff. If you
buy slide pages that have an opaque backing, you can view all the thumbnails
simply by holding it up to the light. Then organize them by subject or
chronology or something. This is probably one of the better compromises for
slide shooters. However, I am no longer one of these.
You asked if I ever go through old stuff. Yes, I do quite often, due to the
speed of showing all the thumbnails with the above mentioned system.
Bruce Dayton
Sacramento, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Hope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 4:09 AM
Subject: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs
> Hi all
>
> I was looking for a photograph I had taken a year or so ago, and my filing
> system being what it is.. well, it isn't a system as such, just whack
> everything into draws until they fill up and then get more drawers:-)..
> Anyway, I was going through all the stuff I'd taken over the past few
years
> and was pleasantly surprised at some of the photographs I'd forgotten I'd
> ever taken. Actually, I was more than pleasantly surprised, I was rather
> chuffed with some of them, so much so that some are going to be enlarged
> and hung on the walls here at home. I dunno why I didn't pull them out
> earlier and get them done.
>
> Enough rambling. A couple of questions. Is there a good system to utilise
> to catelogue and file my photographs that anyone would care to recommend?
> And secondly, do you people go through the photographs you have taken on
> any sort of regular basis?
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Jon
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