Recently Provencher, Paul M. wrote:
>
> Jon wrote> Is there a good system to utilise to catelogue and file my
> photographs that anyone would care to recommend? <<
...
> Basically start with the date noted as YYMMDD, then add on the roll number
> for that day in the format NN where NN is a two digit number using leading
> zeros, and finally the frame number, again in the NN format. A typical
> number would look like this:
>
> 010321-01-05 - The fifth frame of the first roll shot on March 21, 2001.
> Since the number of digits should not change (if you routinely shoot more
> than 99 rolls of film or more than 99 frames on a roll you may want to add a
> digit to these components)
>
> Just by reading the number of the image, I can immediately determine when it
> was shot and which roll etc.
>
This would, of course, not work for those of us who do not manage to shoot
an entire film on a single day. But the system can be adjusted for that.
I too have been thinking of developing a system, and my first take would be
something like this:
- shoot slides,
- when a new film is picked up from the developer:
- throw away all that are not at least very good,
- record a running number on each "keeper". Let the numbers run
continuously, regarless of topic/subject/occasion. Continue increasing
the running numbers with the next film that you get developed.
- file the keepers in transparent slide pages.
- for each "keeper" enter all vital info in a computer database.
Things that might go in the DB are: slide number, image category or
categories, date, film, lens, exposure info, etc. The lens and film will
be identified only by a single number that is a key in a table dedicated to
films and another one to lens details.
In this way I can easily find out all images shot with lens #8 or on film
type #3. I can also get more fancy and find all images that were shot on a
particular date with a given lens but not with film type #3, etc.
If I need to take these images out of their storage, I will have to pull
images from various slide filing sheets, and will then need to file them
back in. Both of these operations are not a problem because the slides a
numbered sequentially, and I know that there are 20 slides on a page.
What do you all think?
Cheers,
Boz
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