[Leica] Software

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

> Lew offered:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Software
>
>
>> Ted, please! I'm not asking you to disclose anything. The questions I'm 
>> asking are *if* you keep such records, do you use computer software to 
>> store them & *if* so, would would mind naming the program and what you 
>> like about it. Apparently, none of these issues apply to you.<<<

Sorry Lew,
My suspicious manner these days about the internet and those in the 
"information gathering community!" Leaves me rather gun shy! Please accept 
my apologies for my rather blunt in your face previous post.

The only thing I do when filing B&W negs from assignments is in 7 strip 
slide pages with a contact sheet filed in three ring binders. During contact 
editing when a frame is selected it's red edge marked on the sheet and the 
neg is clipped along the bottom edge for quick Identification in the 
darkroom when printing.

Each contact page and roll of negs are marked by year, assignment and roll 
number. When identifying a print we add the negative number. In other words 
as archaic as this is to the young lads and lasses with "software" in 
computers it worked, some how. ;-),

It would be "61"- year - "45" - assignment - "32" roll number of those used 
on the assignment- "2" neg number.

As in 61-45-32-2 would be written on the back of the print indentifying it 
for future prints if necessary.

Slides were 20 slides to the page in 3 ring binders by countries, subject or 
use in lectures. That was about it. Always time consumming searching, but 
after a while it was... "Yeah it's in about the middle of the book!" ;-) 
when we'd be looking for a slide later.;-) The worst part of this routine 
was clearing the light table 8'X4' size in a hurry and slides being filed in 
the right book, however not necessarily the right pages. :-) We always ran 
into... "It's in there I know because I re-filed it!"  Yeah 12 pages away 
from where it was supposed to be. ;-) but some how it worked. ;-)

Now with computers? Well we have about the same archaic fashion using the 
same numbering system, so that's why "software" really doesn't come into 
play. Besides I'm not the brightest star when it comes to things like this. 
I just want to take pictures and let someone else worry about the paper 
work, filing, sorting and numbers. :-)

So there you go mate, ;-) I hope this helps, if nothing else it'll point out 
the good  guidance of software wisdom we've already seen posted is in the 
hands of the younger folks. Well Ok a few older guys and gals in there also. 
;-)

ted