I keep all my slides in plastic sheets, sorted by subject and date. The sheets are kept in 3-ring binders on a book shelf. What I like about the plastic sheets is that I can throw a whole sheet on the light box and quicly view all the slides and find the ones I want without sorting through little boxes and one slide at a time.
I'm paranoid about digital storage so I have multiple very large hard drives on several file-servers and keep multiple copies of images. I also periodically burn every image to CD and have multiple CDs which are kept in jewel cases and rarely ever used to prevent scratching. I'd really like to get an external RAID device for my linux SAMBA server for added protection. Space is still an issue with digitl storage! Christian -----Original Message----- From: Malcolm Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Jul 7, 2004 8:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Slide storage. Having spent a couple of hours trying (without success) to find a set of slides I took a few years back, I realise my current storage system - such as it is - needs a re-think. I have sets in plastic boxes as sent back from development, slide sheets that take 20 a page and one or two larger boxes. What I need to do is standardise storage formats. Apart from the larger boxes, which contain an index and make it easy to find a particular slide, it is a real problem to find anything else. It would also be nice for them all to be in one place and take up less room. Does anyone have a solution to this problem? As I am still using a fair bit of slide film, this is a growing problem....I wish I hadn't started re-organising things now :-( Malcolm PS - I grudgingly accept that digital image storing takes up much less space, but I like my slides.
