[at-l] Mish-mash...FireFly

[daniel@circumtech.com (Daniel Berlinger)]

> my solution was to turn date on for first and last shots on each roll
> only
> 
> Bob Cummings wrote:
> > 
> > "...I wonder what other non-professionals think about the date feature?"
> > 
> >  I keep the date featured turned off on my camera for all the reasons cited by
> >  Chase. My wife keeps turning it back on.
> > 
> >  But as time passes and my memory of hike details lessen, I increasing have
> >  difficulty figuring out when and where some of my nearly 3,000 hike slides 
> were
> >  taken.
> > 
> >  I had worked out a system with the processor for numbering each roll, but 
> some
> >  got mixed up in the end of hike confusion.


Which is why the pros often shoot "card" shots along the way. That is, a picture of a card with pertinent information writen there upon. They generally can't be screwed up by the processor as they are part of the roll, and you can determine what information makes sense at that moment etc.

The question is, how do you as a hiker keep the weight of all those cards to a minimum? :)

If you keep a journal, you might want to make an entry into the journal and then take a picture of that...

It's a lot less costly than having a great picture and no recollection of where it is or when it was... or who those scruffy looking hikers were...

d.