Digital 'rolls'

[coelacanth]

A while ago, I stared to use SD cards as "film roll" in a way. I download pics to computer, but keep all images on the card and keep it in a card binder with labels. They are cheap enough I can use them like that keep as backup.

 

[Wes Medlin]

When I started shooting digital, I had been shooting film for more than 25 years. Those negatives and slides are all organized, and cataloged. Each roll of film had it's own roll number. So the digital just fell into place, and continued on with the roll numbers. I've always thought of the digital images in terms of rolls of film. It's just natural to me.

 

[SteveM_NJ]

I still think of shooting in terms of "rolls" - and dont fire off thousands, even if it is perfectly possible, with digitial.

 

[Bob Ross]

One habit I still have is proof sheets, so I still think in finite numbers of frames. In digital though, I can sort a bit, for what I want on the sheet and allow for the occationa 44 frame roll.
Bob

 

[polaski]

It's the cost per frame for me

It's the cost per frame for me

I can't just blast away with digital because after over 50 years of shooting on a tight budget, every time I press the shutter release I think, "17 cents".

Now I prize my time as my most valuable asset, and each digital shot costs time.

 

[btgc]

Old digital P&S with 8MB internal memory takes 10 picures in finest quality and biggest resolution, that's close to 12exp roll. I know this and delay accordingly.

 

[JoeV]

I use a 16Gb card in my Lumix G1, so I never think of it in terms of a finite number of images. Even shooting RW2 for a week-long vacation, I've not come close to filling the capacity of the card. I'm more thinking along the lines of the post-processing regimen required, once back home.

So for me, my image files are structured in terms of folders on my computer. A naming convention that's date-relevant, as in "2010.08.04," for all the images off-loaded from the G1's memory card today, become the equivalent of a "roll of film." The main difference is that the quantity of images contained within this "roll" varies considerably, from a mere dozen or so taken on a short jaunt, to several hundred while on holiday.

Interestingly, my grandson is learning the photography ropes using my old Minolta X-370, so he's learning all about having only a limited number of frames with which to shoot, and learning the discipline required to anticipate when and where one might need to save a few frames for a special moment.

~Joe

 

[emraphoto]

i am a counter. mainly because i occasionally find myself in the thick of some affair or another shooting film and need to know where i am at. even when i am shooting the big dlsrs i find myself counting frames out of habit.