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[OM] Re: Retro and looking in through the Digital Window

Subject: [OM] Re: Retro and looking in through the Digital Window
From: Jan Steinman <Jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:29:49 -0800
>From: AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>My biggest problem with digital remains one key issue:  Filing.
>My filing system for the slides and film is wonderful.  I can
>find ANY slide (provided I returned it to the sleeves) in less
>than a minute.

That's great that you're so disciplined!

>If
>they were burned on CDs it would take me forever to load, look
>and find pictures spanning years.

Well, your physical filing system required a certain investment: pages, boxes, 
shelf space, etc. -- plus the time you put into it, which you may discount 
because it was joyful time.

A similar investment in an "asset management system" makes digital equally 
organized and accessible.

I have over 11,000 images in an Extensis Portfolio database (MSRP: US$199). I 
can click on an always-open window and type "flower" and within seconds see 
2,468 thumbnail images (roughly the size of a 35mm slide) of all the flowers in 
the imagebase. I can double-click any one of them and get a full-screen 
preview. With one menu pull, I can then open the hi-res image in Photoshop -- 
it will pop open the DVD drawer and prompt me to insert the proper one of 36 
DVDs containing all the high-res scans.

To folks who would rather be in the darkroom than in front of a computer, this 
may sound tedious, but to me, this was just as joyful a work as I'm sure 
organizing your physical artifacts was for you.

Either approach requires a combination of interest and discipline. IMHO, the 
digital version ultimately ends up with better access, though.

>Second problem I've been experiencing with digital is the Delete
>function.  It is too easy for me to eliminate my mistakes...
>I've kept more than
>my share of mediocre pictures because of some unknown reason and
>later found them to be of great interest or success...

Good point! I try not to delete anything until it's on my monitor. It's hard to 
tell on that crappy little digicam display whether a "bad" shot has some 
redeeming merit.

>However, I do recall the time that I was so frustrated during a
>photoshoot that I popped open the camera took the exposed film
>out unrewound and proceeded to stomp on it until dead.  Once I
>was sure that it wasn't breathing I hacked it to pieces with my
>knife.  You just don't get that kind of satisfaction pressing
>"Delete".

I hear you! And you don't exactly want to do the same thing with a ~$1,000 
digicam... and those memory cards just don't have the same satisfaction when 
you snap them in half... :-)

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