Digital management:
- every evening or after every session, download to primary computer
into temp directory
- next time I'm working on the computer, run DNG Converter on all
files in temp,
transferring files into working directory
- auto-backup every evening to external archive directory all new
original
PEF, JPEG, DNG and .PSD work files (2x since I make two replicas
of my
archive hard drive)
All files are automatically cataloged with iView Media Pro at the
same time the backups are done. I can then tag, categorize, and
otherwise keyword stuff at leisure, the backups pick up any changes
to iView archive files as well. .XMP sidecar files are also picked up
at the same time.
The process is to me much faster and easier to keep working than
anything I ever did with film. I wish my film archives were half as
well organized ... I always found it very tedious to do. I can find
anything I've created a digital rendering of for the past 20 years in
less than 3 minutes ... that's 120,000+ images now.
Godfrey
On Jul 9, 2005, at 1:03 PM, Pat Kong wrote:
Hmmm, I had that system down. No film tail? Canister marked as
exposed? Off to
processing. Archiving meant displaying suitable shots or putting
them into
chronological albums. Negatives were filed chronologically as well
by event.
The transition to digital means downloading images to PC, burning a
CD (or two)
for archiving and safety purposes, editing images as needed, saving
those files
as well, and then printing the ones I want. Oh yeah, and deleting
the images
from the memory card. Now I will be archiving CDs.
The ultimate goal for me is to display the ones I like or putting
them in a
physical album to tell a story. Sharing electronically, while a
nice perk,
still isn't the main agenda. I can enable myself with high-tech
gear, but some
friends & family are still behind the times.
--- Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(None of this mattered with film...)
You couldn't re-use film either. Film management is determining
whether a particular roll is exposed, transporting it without damage,
processing it, and archiving it. To me, that's a lot more work than
creating images on a storage card and then erasing them once I've
retrieved them for use.
