As I posted a while back, I store my slides (that's pretty much all I shoot) in
binders, 20 per page, 40 pages per binder. And, like I said then, I timed how
long it takes to go through one binder, 800 slides, looking at each one long
enough to determine whether or not it's the one I'm looking for, using my
little 5x7 in. Hakuba viewer slipped between pages, and it takes about six
minutes. The slide binders are labled by year and/or subject, and there are
probably close to 20,000 slides in all. I bet I can find any particular one in
less than 15 minutes, no matter how long ago it was taken, and I've never had
to name one. They're all called "Fred."
Many are right where they have been for up to 40 years, except for the
occasional field trip to be scanned, printed, or projected. None have ever had
to be renamed, migrated to a different format, media or hardware, and they'll
probably all look pretty much the same when 20 years from now (I hope it's at
least that long) my wife and/or children send them off to Mt. Trashmore the day
after I've been incinerated.
Computer geeks may be able to keep up with digital picture files, but old
dumb-ass hillbillies like me just have better things to do. I really, really
don't like computers. I don't enjoy scanning, editing, or even looking at
photographs on a computer screen, and I don't want to spent time cataloging
files, no matter how fast or wonderfully helpful the image browser may be.
I have seen, and made, 8x10-in. contact prints, and that's my reference point
for photographic excellence. Those who haven't seen the tonal range and
graduation, sharpness, detail and magic of one of these, a photograph you can't
help but stare at closer and closer until you're nearly rubbing your nose on
it, don't have a clue as to what it's really all about. If snapshots and stuff
that looks like it was shot underwater suits you, then that's what hobbies are
all about. Some people collect Nash Ramblers; others go for Cobras. They just
have fewer of them. Do whatever lifts your skirt.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> How is that different from film? Don't you have to look at prints or
> slides to know what they are? Don't you at least label the box of
> slides or packet of prints? You can do that as you download your
> digital pictures. Don't you have an image browser to make it easy to
> look at your images? You are not opening each one separately are you?
>
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