Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:01 AM 4/1/2003 -0800, you wrote: >Tina and everyone... > >Wow - I've never even imagined doing this! What do you gain from this approach >over keeping your negatives on strips? How do you store and organize your >slides? Do you keep them in boxes? In the plastic sheets with pockets for each >slide? Adam - With the negatives in individual slide mounts, I can file them according to country and subject. They are filed in hanging slide files, 20 slides to a page, in lateral filing cabinets. I have over 300,000 slides in 11 lateral filing cabinets. They are organized first by country and then by subject within the country. >I'm truly curious about how people organize their photographs. It's becoming a >real problem for me and only getting worse. My numbering system is based on two sets of five numbers. For example, negative #61949-06815 would tell me that the country is Honduras (619), the subject is children (49), the negative is located in hanging file page #68 in the 15th slot on the page. It takes me about 5 seconds to find anything. It's also all filed in the computer using Portfolio so I can pull up all of the slides by keyword or location. >Does it take a lot of time to mount negatives in slides? I've never done >this so >any answer would be instructional. It's very easy. I do it all by hand, cutting the frames with scissors and mounting them in Gepe mounts, using a small manual slide-mounter. It takes about 4 seconds per slide. You can also edit and through away all of those frames that are total failures and forget you ever took them! Hope this helps. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com photos available from: http://www.pdiphotos.com http://www.mira.com http://www.agpix.com http://www.newscom.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html