How do your store your slides?

Yes. Misled. ‘Deep love’ is 50% right. ‘Deep loathing’ is 100% right.

Nurse! I’m having a flashback!

I was under the impression that your time sorting slides at WW had left you with a “deep love” for the P51D. Have I been misled? :diablo:

Thank you Eddie. Do I gather you deliberatly misunderstand me?

…aha, a warbird with a cover to make it warmer….satisfies both JDK’s needs!

There is Albert, and it’s a) not with you (all those jets?) and b) where it’s warmer… 😉

If you don’t like jets, James… maybe this is more up your street?

There is Albert, and it’s a) not with you (all those jets?) and b) where it’s warmer… 😉

Best of all would be to have a slave, fully trained in aircraft recognition…

…ah there’s a job for you somewhere :rolleyes:

I sold mine on to another Aviation enthusiast…don’t tell anyone….he kept raiding the fridge in the middle of the night (the light kept waking me up) and running to the window anytime a plane flew over and pointing and grunting at it…VERY annoying…

M

Best of all would be to have a slave, fully trained in aircraft recognition…

Many thanks for all the advice.

Slide sleeves is now my favourite as you can change the filing quite easily. I first started filing my date and now switched to filing by aircraft type. Within a particular aircraft type, I file by c/n.
The file listing is kept on the computer which allows me to check in a split of second, what i have (registration, c/n, titling, location, date). For the registration I list them by registration worn which does not always match the actual registration.
Besides fake registration worn to duplicate a particular aircraft, you have sometimes errors made by the painters.

“I will keep taking K64 slides as long as they keep making films. I’m not convinced a load of pixels is a substitute, as the storage of digital images has not stood the test of time yet!”

And Kodachrome has been discontinued. What is there, one K14 plant still in operation?

So how long will they keep making films – or supplying it to first world countries? That’s a good question. Ilford have pretty much gone under. Did you lot know, by the way, that ALL FIVE of Kodak’s UK processing mainlabs will be closing, beginning January? They’re the ones that take all the D&P from the shops, post offices, pharmacies, etc etc and do them on the cheap next day (or a week, or a month for the 6 days it was supposed to take for my recent 12×18. Or never if it’s a chromogenic black and white film).

Personally, I am convinced that a load of pixels is a substitute. But then I do tend to make prints and not just rely on CD’s.

I agree with JDK, slide sleeves work beautifully and you can store them in a notebook…I have chucked many a slide that I knew I’d never use to save space, leaving only the good ones in the notebooks. I file my slides by ‘airshow year’, as I can always recall when and where I saw a Fairey Swordfish (Legends 2000) and just go to that notebook and get it…not saying that ALL of my photographic collection is that well organized, tho….still can’t find my Collings B-24 air to airs from 3 years ago!!

M

….and is your memory that good that you can remember where you saw everything else?? Filing by ‘airshow year’ is very nice for having a varied slide show, but when you started shooting slides in 1966, my memory needs more than just help with everything apart from my Fairey Swordfish sightings!

I agree with JDK, slide sleeves work beautifully and you can store them in a notebook…I have chucked many a slide that I knew I’d never use to save space, leaving only the good ones in the notebooks. I file my slides by ‘airshow year’, as I can always recall when and where I saw a Fairey Swordfish (Legends 2000) and just go to that notebook and get it…not saying that ALL of my photographic collection is that well organized, tho….still can’t find my Collings B-24 air to airs from 3 years ago!!

M

Chiz,
I’m feelin a bit misunderstood. 😉 I was advocating throwing out any shots that aren’t up to par for original reasons, or cos they aim’t very good pics. Generally, when writing an article, I’ll find (say) 30 pics that will relate, but only 20 that are good enough to use. If, like me you use yr pics, keep the useable, throw the chaff. If you want to keep everything, go ahead.

Slide’s tough good stuff, and we’ve had a debate on digital futures, I was just asking about digital archiving – keeping pics on my hard drive seems as smart as using my desk as the filing cabinet, and off hard drive storage all seems a bit – messy…

Steve,

I used to have a numbering system and card index cross-reference until I discovered girls (MANY moons ago! :rolleyes: ) which caused chaos trying to keep up with the filing, so ever since the late ’70s I have used clear sheets holding 24 slides per sheet and have four X 4-drawer filing cabinets which hold my enormous slide collection. The sheets are filed alphabetically by manufacture, then sub-divided by type, then again by country and by serial number. Here is the collection with the second sheet of RAF Argosies pulled out. The beauty of this is you don’t have to keep updating an index system and can find anything instantly! Like you, I will keep taking K64 slides as long as they keep making films. I’m not convinced a load of pixels is a substitute, as the storage of digital images has not stood the test of time yet! 😮

DON’T CHUCK OUT ANY SLIDES 😮 ,Technology is improving all the time and even if the colours have gone strange they can be altered or turned to Black and White.
Mine have been kept in their original boxes indoors and in the dark but they are discolouring [well,the ones with skies seem to more than the others]
If you are going to scan them allow alot of time to do it and save them to cd x2 as well as your harddrive. 😀 Have fun 😀

Martin. Can you say more about “special archive boxes”?

Steve,
It wasn’t a ‘you should go digital’ remark; quite the opposite. 😉

Those who get smug about being digital users – (me included) I suspect that many of us are in for a shock when we try to find stuff unless they’ve organised it well as they went along, and I’ve yet to see an electronic archiving system which AFAIK does the job!

I concur with JDK’s advise:

junk all slides that are sub-standard – they “might” be good for aircraft recognition training, but unless one ‘average’ slide is the only picture of a particular aircraft you have – get rid of it.

I did that and ended up with masses of empty yellow plastic boxes – and I keep the surviving slides in them, properly labelled on top and sides. They reside in a special archival boxes with access from the side, i.e. It still gives me a headache sometimes when in need of a particular shot, but I have seen many solutionswith friends, i.e. for examples heavy metal chests of drawers for technical drawings converted to hold the slides, but none of these solutions were very convincing (or again were using too much space).

Oh – and to make some space – please send me your spare slides of P-51’s – I promise to treat them nicely….. 😀

Regards
Martin / Swiss Mustangs