On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:14:11 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to admit that I do not edit the way I should. And I often think that > if I had thrown out all the slides that had small problems with them because, > I > would be very disappointed right now. Until digital came along, a slight flaw > in a slide was enough to relegate it to the wastebasket. Today, a quick scan > and some work in photoshop can turn a throwaway into a real keeper.. >
Well, having read all the posts here about what to throw out, and what to keep, and putting stuff into circular file cabinets and everything else, let me add my two cents. Here's what I throw out: NOTHING! That's not to say that I haven't lost a few negs over the years, but surprisingly, I've come across some that I took a way back in the 70's. A sheet of negs takes up little space. Everything I've taken since I've become "more serious" about our little hobby some 6 or 7 years ago remains with me. It always will. I've never thrown out a print, either. But, now that I don't routinely print everything, just get contacts and only print the ones that interest me, it takes up even less space. I don't know why I keep everything. I mean, I've revisited some older negs and re-thought what I like and what I don't. But beyond that, I suppose that my thinking is that they take up so little space, why throw anything out? Some day, after I'm dead and gone, someone will go through my "things", find these, and there will be some sort of record of some of what I did in my life. Mind you, whoever finds them will likely just toss them anyway <vbg>.. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
