If you use memory cards like film...how do you store / organize them?

[Ilovemycam]

If you use memory cards like film...how do you store / organize them?

 

[bentcountershaft]

Do you mean just filling up a memory card and not deleting the shots after transferring to a computer? Just keeping it and starting fresh again? I can't see any good reason to do that.

My wife likes to keep photos on her cards, "So she can show people the shots" when she has her camera with her. I've tried to explain that she is wasting space and she can show anyone anything she has if she would just put them on her facebook or flickr and use her phone. It's like talking to a wall.

 

[bunny99123]

Sounds like my Aunt. My job to take her card and have pics printed and clean it off.

Back to your question. I down load mine on my computer to a folder. Followed by deleting all photos on my card. Then once a day any new files are backed up to an external hard drive. About once a month, I spend a few hours deleting photos I don't want.

 

[LouR]

I am one of those rare people who fills the cards and stores them.
I just write on them with a Sharpie and keep them in plastic containers from Office Depot. Lately it seems they don't come in their own protector.

 

[Josh66]

I know a lot of people who do that, and it annoys the **** out of me every time, lol!

I guess it's cheaper than buying DVDs and external drives all the time though - as long as the cards are at least as stable as those, which they probably are.

 

[LouR]

I know a lot of people who do that, and it annoys the **** out of me every time, lol!

I guess it's cheaper than buying DVDs and external drives all the time though - as long as the cards are at least as stable as those, which they probably are.

It has nothing to do with you, so why would it be annoying?
While you're creating folders, transferring the original files and using up storage better served for other things, re-transferring files as different formats to a stack of DVD's, reformatting the cards and hoping you haven't worn'em out yet, I'm eating cookies and watching Big Bang Theory. Bazinga.

 

[Josh66]

I know a lot of people who do that, and it annoys the **** out of me every time, lol!

I guess it's cheaper than buying DVDs and external drives all the time though - as long as the cards are at least as stable as those, which they probably are.

It has nothing to do with you, so why would it be annoying?
While you're creating folders, transferring the original files and using up storage better served for other things, re-transferring files as different formats to a stack of DVD's, reformatting the cards and hoping you haven't worn'em out yet, I'm eating cookies and watching Big Bang Theory. Bazinga.

That was mostly a joke.

What other things is my storage better served by? Cookies?

I use a computer for three things (mostly), editing and storing photos, and reading dick jokes.

Anything else is just a nice bonus, lol.

 

[LouR]

I know a lot of people who do that, and it annoys the **** out of me every time, lol!

I guess it's cheaper than buying DVDs and external drives all the time though - as long as the cards are at least as stable as those, which they probably are.

It has nothing to do with you, so why would it be annoying?
While you're creating folders, transferring the original files and using up storage better served for other things, re-transferring files as different formats to a stack of DVD's, reformatting the cards and hoping you haven't worn'em out yet, I'm eating cookies and watching Big Bang Theory. Bazinga.

That was mostly a joke.

What other things is my storage better served by? Cookies?

I use a computer for three things (mostly), editing and storing photos, and reading dick jokes.

Anything else is just a nice bonus, lol.

More dick jokes, for starters... can never have enough of those.
All my externals and my computer are full of edited work, software, crap...If I'm not going to change the raws and want them original as out of the camera, why would I waste time moving them around? Initial edits get saved in their proper folders on the pc as TIFFs, awaiting my extraordinary editing and manipulating skillz. At the end of each year, I move everything to an external and do it all over again.

 

[TATTRAT]

That was mostly a joke.

What other things is my storage better served by? Cookies?

I use a computer for three things (mostly), editing and storing photos, and reading dick jokes.

Anything else is just a nice bonus, lol.

No midgets in monkey suit porn?

Weirdo.

 

[Kolia]

So, how would you access your pictures if they're scattered on various cards ? It sounds like way more trouble than even browsing old negatives for a specific picture.

I try to delete any picture not worth keeping in an album to look at regularly. I have too many boxes of photographs and negatives that I only see when I move.

I feel that if my library isn't easily accessible, it is useless. So everything goes to the PC, online and on various back up.

 

[MK3Brent]

My dad does this.
He's 70 years old, and refuses to learn any other technology other than his point and shoot.
He stores them in their small SD plastic cases and has a binder of them I think. (Just like someone else said, writes on them with sharpie.)

 

[Josh66]

So, how would you access your pictures if they're scattered on various cards ? It sounds like way more trouble than even browsing old negatives for a specific picture.

Haha - I was doing just that last night. Luckily I at least knew which box the negatives I was looking for were in.

As long as the cards were well labeled and you had an idea how old the photo you were looking for was, it probably wouldn't be too bad.

My digital files are all sorted by camera then date. My negatives are sorted by format then date. I think if I was saving cards, I would write the date of the first and last photo (as well as the first and last file number) on it. That's what I do with dvds, anyway.

 

[LouR]

So, how would you access your pictures if they're scattered on various cards ? It sounds like way more trouble than even browsing old negatives for a specific picture.

I try to delete any picture not worth keeping in an album to look at regularly. I have too many boxes of photographs and negatives that I only see when I move.

I feel that if my library isn't easily accessible, it is useless. So everything goes to the PC, online and on various back up.

Only the original raws on are the cards. Everything else is on my externals and the pc, so if I need the original of something I've already edited and filed, finding it on marked and stored cards is pretty simple. Anything crappy is not kept-those are deleted off the cards during the initial editing. It's no less accessible than anything else.

 

[The_Traveler]

Since I delete about 70% of what I take (at least), my cards would be mostly empty - or at least 70%+ empty.

 

[Buckster]

Let's see... For about the same price, and taking into account the throughput speeds I want, I can get either a 32 GB CF Card or a 1 TB Hard Drive.

Soooooo, the card is more cost-efficient than the hard drive, um... how

Plus, who needs backups, right? Just keep everything on one device and hope for the best! That's the way the REAL PROs do it! :er:

And for the files that get edited / processed on the computer, no folders or organization is used? Assuming that's not true and that they do indeed get made and used (which takes all of what - a freaking 5-10 seconds?), how does the CF card-archiver save time on that aspect again, especially compared to the time it takes marking and organizing and storing the CF cards so they can be dealt with in the future?

To each his own, but that all sounds pretty lame-excuse-bullschitt-stupid to me, like something a total noob or clueless luddite would do - no offense intended to those who choose to, of course. After all, it's no skin off my nose how they do things.

I just gotta say though (because I'm an opinionated old fart who just says what he thinks, and you're welcome), to me it's like watching someone dig a ditch with a spoon clenched in their teeth while making up reasons why that's better, less effort and less costly than the production methods commonly used by pretty much anyone who's armed with even a minor clue and a freaking shovel.