Plastic pages: I file my RR shots by the roll number in ClearFile plastic archival pages in 4 inch (or smaller) binders. I use heavy cardboard file storage boxes for letter sized files that I get in flat form and assemble (fold up) including a lid. With the binder spine pointing up (with the year labeled on them), I stack the file boxes. I do this as the slides come back from the lab and a few bucks here and there for a binder and another 100 pack of pages seems like no big deal. First I put them on the light table in rows, discard the rejects, stamp them with my name/copyright, stamp them with the roll number, slide them off the edge and stack them and then stick them into the pages in order of the lab printed frame number. Assembling a RR slide show and refiling is a snap.
After doing the first few of these years ago, it goes so smoothly that you are done before you can think of anything to slow you down. I use a numbering stamp in the format of ######.# and the roll number is the date the roll came out of the camera, plus any .# for more than one roll that day. It couldn't be any simpler for me, at least that's what I thought until I started having the roll number (and auto frame number), copyright/year/name and film type code printed right on the plastic Pakon mounts by my local labs. I use a mini-tape recorder to document the shot info while shooting, then I later transfer it to the slides, notes or a (very) simple data base. I am more interested in location, time/date, shooting settings and film type than in train symbols. Works for me. Non RR stuff is filed differently by the job/date, mostly in boxes with reference numbers. Unless I file a slide as a stock image, specific job shots usually have a short life. Interesting subject. Gotta run... need to go file lunch. :) Dave Cohen Photographer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 1593
