Jon wrote> Is there a good system to utilise to catelogue and file my
photographs that anyone would care to recommend? <<
There are a number of "systems" but the most important thing is that you do
it on an ongoing basis. That allows you to manage it in smaller chunks and
to record the info at a time that you are more likely to remember it.
Aside from storage and retrieval systems, which I think are best left to
personal preference, I like to use a numbering system that I learned in a
lab. It is good because it encodes useful data, is scaleable, and easy to
use.
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.
ppro
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