>From: AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>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.
That's great that you're so disciplined!
>If
>they were burned on CDs it would take me forever to load, look
>and find pictures spanning years.
Well, your physical filing system required a certain investment: pages, boxes,
shelf space, etc. -- plus the time you put into it, which you may discount
because it was joyful time.
A similar investment in an "asset management system" makes digital equally
organized and accessible.
I have over 11,000 images in an Extensis Portfolio database (MSRP: US$199). I
can click on an always-open window and type "flower" and within seconds see
2,468 thumbnail images (roughly the size of a 35mm slide) of all the flowers in
the imagebase. I can double-click any one of them and get a full-screen
preview. With one menu pull, I can then open the hi-res image in Photoshop --
it will pop open the DVD drawer and prompt me to insert the proper one of 36
DVDs containing all the high-res scans.
To folks who would rather be in the darkroom than in front of a computer, this
may sound tedious, but to me, this was just as joyful a work as I'm sure
organizing your physical artifacts was for you.
Either approach requires a combination of interest and discipline. IMHO, the
digital version ultimately ends up with better access, though.
>Second problem I've been experiencing with digital is the Delete
>function. It is too easy for me to eliminate my mistakes...
>I've kept more than
>my share of mediocre pictures because of some unknown reason and
>later found them to be of great interest or success...
Good point! I try not to delete anything until it's on my monitor. It's hard to
tell on that crappy little digicam display whether a "bad" shot has some
redeeming merit.
>However, I do recall the time that I was so frustrated during a
>photoshoot that I popped open the camera took the exposed film
>out unrewound and proceeded to stomp on it until dead. Once I
>was sure that it wasn't breathing I hacked it to pieces with my
>knife. You just don't get that kind of satisfaction pressing
>"Delete".
I hear you! And you don't exactly want to do the same thing with a ~$1,000
digicam... and those memory cards just don't have the same satisfaction when
you snap them in half... :-)
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