On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 14:18:28 -0800 (PST), Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you wanted to be able to access your photos sensibly, you'd > invest in some simple software that allows you to store them as > thumbnails, title and categorize them for browsing and searches. > And print out catalog pages as "contact proofs", if that was > your desire. > > I have nearly a hundred thousand photos in my file archive now. > It's very easy to scan through them or search for photos created > or modified around certain dates or events, locate exactly what > I'm looking for, find things I'd forgotten. I can't imagine > doing that with 2500 proof sheets anywhere near as efficiently. > Godfrey, Thanks for the suggestions, but it just wouldn't work for me, for a number of reasons that I need not get into here. One thing that strikes me is that with my current "process" (if one can call it that), contacts are a starting point. With yours, they're printed after quite a few steps in the process, so they (contacts) would serve two completely different purposes. I agree that it would be nice to have everything instantly available and easily searched by, say, date, topic, event, whatever. Of course, I can easily search by date, as that's how I store my negs. But, my point about the "joy of contacts" is indeed the randomness of looking through old ones. Not knowing what I'll find, not looking for anything in particular is fun and sometimes (but not always) rewarding. That's all I was trying to say. Not to say that there are numerous advantages to digital storage. I like things I can hold in my hand. They just make me feel comfortable. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
