Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 4/11/01 1:19 PM, Tina Manley at images@InfoAve.Net wrote: > I was feeling overwhelmed this morning so I decided to waste a couple of > hours counting all of the rolls of film that I have developed but not > edited or filed. The grand total is 2158 rolls. At 36 exposures per roll > that is 77,688 frames to edit, mount, and file. (All made with > Leicas) Has anybody been this far behind? Gary Winogrand... he was up to 5000 rolls at the time of his death... > Have you ever thought of not > taking any more personal photographs until you get caught up? The only > photos that are getting processed are the ones that have been assigned or > are due somewhere. Maybe I have Spring Fever. Has anybody got 5 years > they could lend me? If you looked very quickly at 100 rolls a day -- I mean really glancing, just looking for wonderful, exceptional pictures -- with the intention of picking one photograph per 10 rolls, you would be done in 3 weeks and you would have 200 photos to scan. Not insuperable!! Let's say you just did 1 hour a day in the evenings. In bed! You'd have 36 seconds to zip through each roll. I think that's plenty! Do it with a glass or two of wine by your side and you'll be cooking with gas. Never stop taking pictures! Let your executors do the editing if necessary. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com