RE: [Leica] Organizing images

["Rodgers, David" <david.rodgers@xo.com>]

Trish,

The proportion of time I spend filing is less than it should be. It's hard
to break it down into percentages. A lot depends on time of year, and type
of film. I print more b/w in the winter. I shoot more in the summer. 

You're brave to keep everything on a 75 gig drive. I have a 100 GB of
storage and a 35GB tape backup system, but the images don't stay there for
long. I work with digital video which chews up storage in no time. I try and
keep as much available room as possible.  

For a while I stored still images to tape. Now I burn everything onto CD.
It's far more efficient. Cost is approx $0.25 per CD. Inexpensive and easy.
Each CD holds several hundred images and index files. Very easy to store.
The original color negs I keep in a filing cabinet in the same glassine
strips in which they came back from the lab. B/W negs I keep in a 3 ring
binder in print file archival preservers. A majority of what I do these days
in color is for web or on-line. I don't do much color printing. 

I remember seeing an old photo in Life or Look or some other publication.
The editors appeared to be swimming in prints. Some things never change.  

Dave 

- -----Original Message-----
From: ternahan [mailto:ternahan@sonic.net]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 3:33 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Organizing images


Thanks, David and all...I have been storing some files by subject on my 75GB
external HD. I agree that thumbnails are too small to tell much. Have you
tried any of the contact sheet options?
I too tend to keep everything, even proof prints testing papers or developer
or toners. Maybe I should have a warehouse.
For curiosity's sake, what proportion of your time is spent filing, printing
and shooting?
As far as filing all my negs and prints and slides, nobody seems to be
volunteering to do it for me, so I guess I am just going to have to swim!

trish
ternahan@gentlelens.net