Godfrey
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When shooting film nowadays, I don't even try to remember frame by frame exposure settings. It's not worth the effort. However, sometimes I do as I have a good memory.
Once the film is processed and scanned, I do take the effort to punch lens name, camera name and model, lens max aperture, and film speed into the EXIF data with EXIFtool. Then I add the film type as a keyword with Lightroom. I rarely refer to this stuff later, but it lets me see at a glance when I'm looking through recent work what cameras and lenses are getting some use.
Most of the compulsion to record this stuff evaporates after you've gotten secure in your technical skills ... that is, once you know how to consistently process your film, understand exposure well enough, and know what the FoV from different lenses looks like, the need to record all this data is pretty minimal.
FAR more important to me when I'm archiving my photographs are the simpler things: location and date of the exposure, names of the people in the photo (if I know them). That's the information that 20 years on you wish you had at your disposal. I know this from the personal experience these past three weeks scanning a bunch of slides from the time period 1970 to 1995... Happily, I can remember about 80% of it. (And ironically, I remember about 90% of the technical information too...)
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Once the film is processed and scanned, I do take the effort to punch lens name, camera name and model, lens max aperture, and film speed into the EXIF data with EXIFtool. Then I add the film type as a keyword with Lightroom. I rarely refer to this stuff later, but it lets me see at a glance when I'm looking through recent work what cameras and lenses are getting some use.
Most of the compulsion to record this stuff evaporates after you've gotten secure in your technical skills ... that is, once you know how to consistently process your film, understand exposure well enough, and know what the FoV from different lenses looks like, the need to record all this data is pretty minimal.
FAR more important to me when I'm archiving my photographs are the simpler things: location and date of the exposure, names of the people in the photo (if I know them). That's the information that 20 years on you wish you had at your disposal. I know this from the personal experience these past three weeks scanning a bunch of slides from the time period 1970 to 1995... Happily, I can remember about 80% of it. (And ironically, I remember about 90% of the technical information too...)
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