Negatives & slide organization?

[Brad Bireley]

How do you file your negs & slides? Also do you use any software that works with all formats, either film &/or digital?

Thanks,
Brad

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

All negatives are scanned to CD.

The CD is uploaded to iPhoto for storage.

The uncut negs are kept in film containers with the date of dev/scan written on them.

 

[suckerpunch]

my negatives get cut into strips of 6, put into sleeves and taped onto the back of the contact sheet. i cut a little tab on the contact sheet, date them with a brief description, 3 hole punched and placed in binders. when i do scan a negative to make prints, i usually place a code on the back of the print to find the negative again. the worthy prints get burned to cd and stored for future printing.

 

[PhotoChrisis]

All my Negs are stored in pages in binder boxes. These are organized by format first, and then chronologically. I use iView Media Pro to digitally organize everything. There is a great resource called The Dam Book that gives good advice on Digital Asset Management. I want to get myself a decent flatbed, though, to make digital proofs of all the sheets in my binders.....at some point after I get the basement digital darkroom built out....so much to do....I need like a year off from shooting commercially to get my personal work organized properly.