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Subject: [Leica] Re: Advice needed
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu Feb 19 18:49:39 2009
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Two copies of external hard drives or a Raid 5 setup + external hard drive.
Any front end indexing program that suits you.
Cheers
Jayanand
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin
<lrzeitlin@optonline.net>wrote:

> Advice needed!
>
> I am in the middle of the process of digitizing 60 years of personal
> pictures. So far I have digitized about 20,000 negatives and slides, stored
> as JPEGs, into 100 GB of disc storage. It has taken over a year of sporadic
> work and has worn our one high end scanner, a Minolta DiMage 5400. Using
> ICE, each image takes about 6 minutes to digitize. My wife is collecting 
> the
> best prints to put in albums.
>
> Here are my questions:
>
> 1. What is the best way to store the digital files. I estimate that by the
> time I finish, I will have 200 GB, maybe much more. I started using CDs
> until I saw how many I was collecting, migrated to DVDs, and now am simply
> using hard discs.
>
> 2. Based on information from Apple, I created iPhoto Libraries to keep
> track of the images. Apple maintains that iPhoto can handle 250,000 images.
> That seems a lot. Has anyone tried stuffing that many images into an iPhoto
> library? Are there any good alternatives? Remember, these are not
> professional photographs and the program will have to be used for viewing
> images as well as cataloging them.
>
> 3. What do you do with the scanned negatives and slides? Bury them? Store
> them in archival sheets? It is improbable that the negatives will ever be
> needed again, but there is always the chance. I suspect that the digital
> files will last longer than the original color film images since I noted
> considerable deterioration in the older Ektachrome and Fujichrome slides.
>
> I learned three things during the scanning process:
>
> 1. Edit before you scan. It is amazing how many duplicates or near
> duplicate images are in the collection. Cutting a roll of 36 exposures down
> to the best 10 or so saves two hours of scanning time per roll.
>
> 2. Don't scan everything at the highest resolution. A lot of personal
> pictures, while interesting, will never justify enlarging beyond 4" x 6".
> High resolution scanning takes at least twice as long.
>
> 3. Keep careful records of each set of images, preferably when the pictures
> were first taken. The only way I could date some files was by estimating 
> the
> age of my children shown in the pictures. I probably was off by two or 
> three
> years. If you travel a lot, locations are hard to remember too.
>
> Help.
>
> Larry Z
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at optonline.net (Lawrence Zeitlin) ([Leica] Re: Advice needed)