ann sanfedele wrote: the black and whitenegatives are in numbered and dated looseleaf binders and sometimes help me find key slides, as I shot both together.
From about 1980 on I was in a stock agency I still am but don't give them anything anymore.. so I kept careful notes and such.. but without thetrip markers I could give them the wrong info. Also, I over shot in film. I've only tossed the most greviously duplicate OTF or unidentifiable shots.. Mine go back to 1965.. The ones from the early days only take up a couple of drawers .. are mostly nostalgia and frequently not that good... I'm guessing I have well over 100,000 slides. 25,000 bw negs and drawers from prints, not sure how many. I have room for them, so they stay. I'd never have been able to do my new calendar without keeping the fillers. There are precious memories among thosethat I wouldn't show to the list - more important than the qualityof the images... gott'm in steel filing cabinets. But then I'm a keeper of things in general, a collector by nature.... as those to Chez Ashley can testify. I have a couple of years on you in length of time shooting.. since there are many more years behind me than in front of me, I see no reason to toss thingsthat are small and tidy... I've mainly regrettedparting with some things more than keeping them. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Over the year, I've got all my slides into one place. This hasn't made things better clutter wise, it's made things much worse. I had no idea which slides were where, and it's going through things box by box to find (and scan). I now wish I'd left them where they were and just got them out a box at a time, but oh no, I did it this way. Well, I'm committed to seeing it through now and I'm hoping I'll find some real gems to make this misery worthwhile. Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
