Digital BW, The Print

on 9/1/01 2:40 PM, tyork@... at tyork@... wrote:

> I use negative films for most of my shooting. Specifically, Ilford
> XP2 Super for my b/w and Superia 100 & 400 for the color. I'm having
> trouble keeping track of everything. How do you people file your
> images or do you shoot mostly chromes? I could really use your help.
> Thank you.

each roll of neg (color or bw) gets a number in sequential order...1, 2, 3
as it comes in. No exceptions! No image ever goes in the scanner unless the
roll it comes from has a number! Medium format stuff is prefixed M.

every image I scan has the prefix NNN where NNN is the roll number it comes
from

the raw file is NNN <filename>RAW

the final image is NNN <filename>

eg "651 mother and child.psd" and "651 mother and child RAW.psd"

or

the images are archived to CD with both the final image and the raw file on
the same CD. The CDs are also numbered sequentially plus some indication of
what's on them and a date. EG "45 Porcupine Hill 8/01"

so both of the above images go to the samem CD, with all the raw files in a
folder called RAW

the image files on CD are cataloged using iView Media Pro

so when I want to find an image I just look it up on iView, which gives me
the CD number. I put in the CD and I have both the image file and the raw
scan. If I need to scan it again the filename gives me the roll number I can
find it on. Seems to work so far. The best bit is having the roll number as
part of the filename, and storing the raw scans in the same place as the
image wherever possible.


-- 
John Brownlow

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