chris000
Landscaper
I keep a photo diary, where I have been and what I have seen and what I took photos of - but I never record technical details. I've never seen any reason why I might ever go back and look at the details.
A question for those who do log their information:
How often do you consult that information afterwards?
And what do you learn from it?
I've always wondered...
Darkroom notebooks are another matter: dev, time, temperature, agitation, paper grade, exposure...
Cheers,
R.
Dear Roger,
I only consult that information either when I am asked by somebody else about it (usually the question: which lens / film did you use ?) or when I think that something is wrong with my camera. The shutter problem with my MP was easy to detect this way, since it was only visible on the negs at speeds of 1/1000s and 1/500s (shutter speeds I only had to use at daytime and with 400 ISO film in summer). After I had sent my camera to Leica they asked me to provide a photo with technical details to figure out out what exactly was wrong and since I had the technical data together with a photo it was easy to provide them the data.
Cheers,
Gabor