On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, AG Schnozz wrote:
> My biggest problem with digital remains one key issue: Filing.
> My filing system for the slides and film is wonderful. I can
> find ANY slide (provided I returned it to the sleeves) in less
> than a minute. Only exceptions are the mega-files of flowers,
> lighthouses, waterfalls and sunsets. Those I have to wave
> through 20-30 sheets at three seconds each. All of my slides
> are categorized (and many of the BW negs are too) together. If
> they were burned on CDs it would take me forever to load, look
> and find pictures spanning years. This dilemma isn't fatal, but
> is bothersome. I know how successful I've been with digitized
> pictures so far.
By far the best tool I've seen for organising digital images is IMatch
(see http://www.photools.com). The system can easily handle databases
with 100,000+ images and does a wonderful job of handling off-line media
such as CD's and DVD's. It can cache thumbnails and image information from
all the off-line media and allow you to perform searches on it. You can
even get it to build contact sheets for your media if you prefer to work
with a printed index. I make low resolution scans of all my slides and
negatives and import them into IMatch to act as the master index to my
library. I can usually locate a specific shot within seconds using it.
-mark
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