Re: file numbering systems

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Always the weird one, I also began scanning contact sheets in the early 1990’s, and eventually hired an archivist of sorts who got down and dirty with the film and slides and created what is today a couple of 25GB files of all rolls,  plus another 15 GB of slide scans where we invented a way to scan both the mounts for text and the film superimposed over them to get full documentation. Contact sheets are scanned at 300dpi in case we need to send somebody a sample file of a single frame. 

I discovered a 3-ring clamshell binder from Lineco for film and slides and now own an absolutely appalling number of them. They were about $10 each and so we put everything in binders until I kick and they all leave for UMBC along with my voluminous notes. (If you’re reading this Tom, save some space.) I also have a couple of thousand slides from Henry Faul (not the one woking in CO in the 1850’s) color negs of Europe from my mother and 554 glass plate negs from my great-grandfather. It’s a pretty big collection for an individual, although to be honest it apparently isn’t worth all that much.

Maybe art4carz will finally allow me to make it worth something as I’m putting really strange images on cars for folks. TOday I sold a wrap of the Nevada Test Site’s Frenchman Flat bunkers from shot Priscilla (Morgan) on my 12th birthday in 1957. Weird.    


On Jun 21, 2013, at 9:27 PM, wpettit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Jan, I had no idea your catalog went to that depth.  It seems to me (an I'm no expert in cataloging ) that you should be able to access any image you need in a reasonably short time.   Several years ago I had a long discussion with one of the archivists at the LOC.  His opinion was that silver halide negatives both  paper and safety film (properly fixed) were about as permanent as one might achieve with current technology--he had no confidence in dye based or magnetic digital media.   Of course accessibility is very different than archival storage.   But all that said,  small digital thumbnail  images may assist in identifying similar images in a catalog.

Bill 
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From: Jan Faul 
Sent: Jun 21, 2013 8:31 PM 
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students 
Subject: Re: file numbering systems 


On Jun 21, 2013, at 3:35 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

On 2013-06-21 12:53, Tina Manley wrote:
All of my film, including negatives, is cut and mounted into Gepe slide
mounts.  The mounts hold it flat and make it much easier to scan and to
file by subject and country.

Yes, if you're going to cut film down, you pretty much have to go all
the way into slide mounts or some such.  Way too much trouble and money
for me (and in a smaller collection, too; but a rather less valuable one).

I’ve been using my date-backwards system since 1970 and I have a bit more than half a million exposures listed this way. In addition to the number, unlike you folks who don’t care about where anything is, I care. My number gets a country code (DK for Denmark etc), if it’s a battlefields it gets  a four letter NPS locator and if it’s a portrait it goes into a different section completely.
Mercifully, I have yet to transition to digital as it would be a terrific loss in quality. A RAW file from a 5D does not compare with a 300MB scan from a Creo.  Sorry, but the 5D is still too contrasty and not a large enough file to make a print 54x182”.



Art Faul

The Artist Formerly Known as Prints
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Art Faul

The Artist Formerly Known as Prints
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Stills That Move: http://www.artfaul.com
Camera Works - The Washington Post
art for cars: panowraps.com
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