Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Electronic storage/archiving question
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@home.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 09:44:18 -0700
References: <200008031526.IAA29477@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

Pascal wrote 
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering what people are doing with all their negatives and
> slides. There must be a better way to intelligently storage/archive these
> than simply put them in (shoe) boxes or trays.
> 
> In fact, what I 'd really like to have is to have a system whereby I
> could have thumbnails of all my shots (negatives and slides), logically
> categorized per film plus my personal comments, for easy retrieval later
> on. Such system should not necessarily contain all high-res scans. It's
> just a question of having a kind of electronic catalog of all your
> shootings, so that you can easily trace back the negative or slide you
> want for hi-res scanning or reprinting or whatever.
> 
> Such system should, ideally, be fairly automated and not time consuming.


Hi Pascal,

It's an admirable system idea. However on the surface there ar two questions?

What kind of revenue background is available to hire someone to do this?

And if you are considering doing this yourself, where and when would the
time come from to accomplish it?

ted