Thanks Walt.
It makes me feel better to know there is a least one other. I once bought a
pocket-sized note book, and started writing down the info for each shot,
after reading in some photography book that this is what you're supposed to
do. I think I recorded about the first ten shots of a roll of 36. So, if I
could find that notebook, and if I knew which roll it belonged to, that
would be the total of my records since beginning with Olympus gear in 1973.
My lens testing is pretty unscientific. I use Elitechrome 100, so I can get
the results in an hour or so before I forget what I did. I shoot sets of 2
identical frames (same pic, same camera setting, etc.), the first frame with
a lens I like, and the second frame with the lens to be tested. I experiment
with different apertures, try to record different colors, shoot things with
lots of detail, etc. If the new lens compares favourably, I'm satisfied,
because that is how the lens will be used by me anyway. Not all lenses have
passed, but most do.
Wayne
You guys make me feel like a real slacker. If I'm testing a new lens, I'll
write down what shot was at which f-stop, but that's it. I've got pages
and pages of slides, many in the same generic type mount, and I don't even
record which are Provia and which are Kodachrome, much less which lens,
what body, the shutter speed, f-stop, filter, which shirt I was wearing or
the mood I was in. And I've been quite consistent for more than 40 years,
with never even an occasional accidental failure to follow this procedure.
Walt
>Chris Barker wrote
> I try to record everything I take with my OMs. I now have a notebook
> for each sort of camera. One for my OM1N mono body, one for my 2
> OM4/Tis, and one for my Bronica RF645. I miss shots every now and
> again, but it serves to supplement my poor memory for places if I
> record shots - exposure number, date, lens, aperture, shutter, meter
> mode/indications, filter, content. In addition, each roll has a
> number and I record the film type.
>
> You might be interested to know that the Olympus Camera Club in the
> Uk are selling Pearlcorders
I have been writing down the essential aspects of every shot since I first
had
a 35mm. From about 1956. Those notebooks are an indispensable record. I
don't always get every shot recorded at the time - at a party or such I
might
just record date, place, camera, film, lens, general topic, and leave it at
that.
But every film has a number and so does every frame (eventually). The best
shots that go into the computer database use both those numbers to link to
the factual details, and also for the slide hangers in the cabinet where
the
film is stored to keep order..
For me it's just a matter of discipline. Not "will I do it this time?"
There's no
question. Do it. I also bought a Pearlcorder (1986) thinking that I'd
use it
for instantaneous records for later transcribing. But never have, not even
once. Writing it down on the spot saves double handling. 2c.
Brian<
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