Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Does anyone have an easy to use photo database program to recommend? How >do the professional photographers on the LUG catalog their slides after >scanning? >Thanks. The last thing I want to do is buy a poor database and then have >to enter everything over again. >Richard - - ------------------ >Richard Clompus, OD I'm using 3 ring binders and clear pages for the slides as well as negatives. We've got something like 60,000 slides and another 90,000 negatives in our archive. I stopped counting my images a couple years ago. I've got everything broken into categories by subject type and by date. The best slides of each category I duplicate in quantity and we sell those to people who want to put together slide presentations on HCJB or Ecuador. All of those, about 3500, have a two number code (53-125 etc.) and we store the those originals in separate binders. If someone wants one of those scanned, I'm using the reference # for the filename. I'm putting the other original slides I have scanned in the front page of the appropriate binder to make it a little easier. I figure it is easier to look through our current all inclusive binders for the image rather than look at a few thumbnails and it seems like a waste of time to scan everything in whether I need it or not. Besides that, I don't have time. It only takes a couple moments to scan anything into the computer so at this point I'm only digitizing things that I really need in the computer rather than just scanning everything in sight. I'm really new at this too and am concerned about keeping the system compatible with our archives as well. It's hard to know what system would be best for you since we don't know how you currently archive your images (by date, patient # subject etc.) But you may find that no database program works perfectly for you. Hope that helps a bit at least. Duane