Re: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs

2001-03-21 Thread Bill D. Casselberry
Jon Hope wrote: Enough rambling. A couple of questions. Is there a good system to utilise to catelogue and file my photographs that anyone would care to recommend? by far the best (and all the Pros I know use it) is a large array of drawers to which more drawers can be added

Re: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs

2001-03-21 Thread Bruce Dayton
the thumbnails with the above mentioned system. Bruce Dayton Sacramento, CA - Original Message - From: "Jon Hope" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 4:09 AM Subject: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs Hi all I was looking for a ph

Re: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs

2001-03-21 Thread tom
Jon Hope wrote: Enough rambling. A couple of questions. Is there a good system to utilise to catelogue and file my photographs that anyone would care to recommend? And secondly, do you people go through the photographs you have taken on any sort of regular basis? I use the numbering system

Re: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs

2001-03-21 Thread Bojidar Dimitrov
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

RE: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs

2001-03-21 Thread Provencher, Paul M.
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

Re: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs

2001-03-21 Thread tom
Bojidar Dimitrov wrote: 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? ... This would, of course, not work for those of us who do not manage to shoot an entire film on a

RE: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs

2001-03-21 Thread Doug Brewer
This is a good numbering system, similar to the one I use. I'd like to suggest a small addition, which I have found to help me out. At the beginning of each string of numbers I have a letter indicating which camera I used. For my PZ-1p, the letter is Z, the LX gets X. Since I tend to shoot

Re: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs

2001-03-21 Thread IronWorks
I like it - but there is no way I could bring myself to throw any away. Maris - Original Message - From: "Bojidar Dimitrov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Bojidar Dimitrov" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 10:12 AM Subject: Re: Sorta O

RE: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs

2001-03-21 Thread Provencher, Paul M.
a pretty small font to get it on a sticker that will fit a slide mount... ppro -Original Message- From: Doug Brewer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs This is a good numbering

RE: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs

2001-03-21 Thread Provencher, Paul M.
You could use the day you got the film processed as the number. Easy enough. What you do with the rest of the data (or if you even use a number) is the freedom you enjoy by doing it yourself! You could try to use the demo database that comes with Office 97 Professional Edition (Access

Re: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs

2001-03-21 Thread Jon Hope
At 05:26 22/03/01, you wrote: Hi all again. Thanks for your suggestions. Everything sounds like a lot of work, but what isn't these days? I think I'll catalogue them all along some of the lines mentioned. I usually use a roll of film on one subject type, so cataloguing them like that isn't

Re: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs

2001-03-21 Thread Doug Franklin
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:01:36 -0500, tom wrote: I use the numbering system someone else recommended - mmddyynn. I put If you instead use YYMMDDNN then any software in the world can accurately sort them by date (I'm assuming 'nn' is the roll number for that day). TTYL, DougF - This message is

RE: Sorta OT. Perusing previous photographs

2001-03-21 Thread David A. Mann
Paul Provencher writes: 010321-01-05 - The fifth frame of the first roll shot on March 21, 2001. I use a similar kind of system which I made up myself. It goes "format- month/year-[film type+roll number]-frame". For example, "6x7-3/2001-S1-4" means 6x7 format, shot (actually I use the