That’s exactly what I thought about filing on date.I put them in folders named by the description of the shot such as Craig Farm 4x5. I may give the individual shots keywords like Craig, 4x5, tmax100, etc. I don't understand how filing by date will help you in the future unless you're a wedding pro and filing by date of contract or work. Who remembers what and where they were shooting by a date?
- My negatives are stored in sheets and each one has a number.With film, you need a system that makes it easy to locate the physical slides/negatives as well as a way of locating needed images.
For that reason, I use dates as part of the information, and file my film in date order.
. Taking the time right now to re-label everything with a unique name to help match the organization I will be doing in Lightroom.
You're a better man than I, taking that time.
I have a stack of lab-scanned negatives behind me dying to be cataloged and stored, and have also been saying I'll go through my old digital files to organize everything for 18 months. I started, at least deleted some duplicate files when I set up a new NAS to provide backups and storage, and got everything in one place and then backed up, but mostly my files are a mess. I desperately need to cull about half or more of my digital files. There are some great ones there, but I don't need 5 copies of the same great image, nor do I need any less-than-great ones I'll never use again.
When I first started using the F6, I attached all the exif data to my scans and was pretty meticulous, but wasn't quite sure about filing my negatives yet, and hadn't decided to use the binder of plastic sheets. Took me a while to get there, and that created a backlog so I have many boxes of unpaged negatives waiting to be trimmed and filed. I just never want to go through it and get them filed, so the pile only shrinks slowly.
Scanning at home now. I try to label by date, film type, and exposure as I scan them, and I immediately either file the negs in a printfile sleeve in my binder, or throw the negatives away if they're trash. Which I have to admit happens plenty. That way they're sortable by date, and i can find the negs if I want to revisit a file I have scanned.
One big deal was to toss those negatives I won't revisit. Sometimes I literally shoot a roll as an experiment, or just don't do anything interesting at all, and will NEVER rescan the negs or use them to print or for any other purpose. Now I keep marginal or good negatives, but a bad roll isn't worth the plastic sleeve. Trying to stop the error I made in not culling crap digital photos for 15 years, leaving countless files that do nothing but make it harder to find the winners.
My biggest goal now is to get the negative filing done, right away, as soon as I've scanned, else the backlog will grow rather than slowly shrink. Don't do it immediately, every time, and you end up with a mess like mine that you have to waste time reorganizing.
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