Old School Photo Sorting

[Photo-John]

It's just not the same on a computer.

Taken with a Sony T50 compact digital that we have in house for testing. Ironic that it was taken with a digi, huh?

[walterick]

Nice It's reassuring to see I'm not the only one with use for a light table still

I thought this might be a post with a picture of a photo album. That is, the kind with pages and a spine, not the kind you log onto and share pictures from. I'm going to be making the paper kind soon, maybe I'll share a picture of one.

Rick

[mtbbrian]

It's just not the same on a computer.

That is for sure!
It's a more intimate experience, when you can bring the loupe to you eye, touch the film with your hands and remember each frame...
:thumbsup:
Brian
Film Rocks!

[another view]

Oh, so that's what a light table is!

I remember one of the seminars I went to (Nikon School?) several years ago said that one good use for a digital camera was to take a picture of a bunch of slides on your light table and send that in to the Library of Congress for copyright protection. Ahh the good 'ol days...

[poker]

How does this guy right click to view EXIF data?

I wouldn't mind getting a light table to looks at my shoe boxes of negatives. The scrapbooking hobby community has one for like $20.....I don't know what they use it for.

Nice shot PJ.

[drg]

Nice shot. I suppose I could clear off my table and do something creative with it. Like look at slides! Mine all get scanned. A few 4x5 pieces of chrome do get looked at occasionally.

Those needing a lightbox, check out any crafting supplier for a 'tracing box' with the REAL LIGHT lamp. $18-35 typically. The $18 to $20 variety usually just have fluorescent tube, but it work quite well. People use these to trace out patterns for cutting and or to make transfers. The SAME companies will sell you a slide light box for 10x the money and they are identical. I walked out of a craft shop with some dry mount supplies about three years ago, and two doors away walked into a camera store/supply house and saw the identical box, package and everything, for literally $100 more. That store by the way as since gone out of business.

[walterick]

How does this guy right click to view EXIF data?

Well, back in my day sonny, we didn't have fancy "exif" files we had to do things THE OLD FASHIONED WAY. And that meant lugging a stone tablet into the field and chiseling the date, time, focal length, aperature and f stop for each shot into it as we went.

You young whippersnappers have it too easy these days...

[Loupey]

I had one about twice the size of the one shown here. Finally sold it last summer at a garage sale for about $10. *sigh* I guess I'm fully digital now.

Of course I still have my loupes though

[OBie]

Well, back in my day sonny, we didn't have fancy "exif" files we had to do things THE OLD FASHIONED WAY. And that meant lugging a stone tablet into the field and chiseling the date, time, focal length, aperature and f stop for each shot into it as we went.

You young whippersnappers have it too easy these days...

:lol: I still have my stone tablet notes from my college photography classes. Hmmm - the storage space that could be cleared if I could bear to part with them . . .

Working on finally finishing up sorting and storing film pics from past years. 19 albums (manual pre-computer page kind) and counting. . .

[jorgemonkey]

What are those things on the table? I've never seen compact flash cards with build in LCD screens in them.

I still can't figure out why hes trying to backlight an lcd screen.....

[schrackman]

great pic, John!!

Interestingly enough I will only shoot slides now through my Canonet. I love being able to look at them on a light table at the photography store. I only wish I had my own to play with. I suppose I could go out and buy one but there are other things that are priorities where it concers the equipment I want. Maybe one day.

[yogestee]

Well, back in my day sonny, we didn't have fancy "exif" files we had to do things THE OLD FASHIONED WAY. And that meant lugging a stone tablet into the field and chiseling the date, time, focal length, aperature and f stop for each shot into it as we went.

You young whippersnappers have it too easy these days...

Hahahahaaa,,,,too right walterick....When I was a boy lugging Linhoff Technicas 5X4s around,,setting up an old wooden tripod,,taking a metre reading with a Sekonic exposure meter,,taking two exposures of the scene...Then racing back to the dark room for processing and printing....
Tell that to the young ones and they won't believe you..

Jurgen
Australia