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Forum: Pentax SLR Lens Discussion
10-21-2008, 06:22 PM
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Serial Number 9018541 - Purchased from Digital City in Canberra Australia on 14/8/2008 Worked fine for 2 months then the auto focus failed and there was unusual noise from inside the lens when the focus ring was turned.
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
05-01-2008, 03:36 PM
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G'day
Organising your images so you can find them can be a lot of work and requires discipline to maintain BUT it adds huge value to your collection.
Image organisation is also important for non-professionals because being able to find all pictures of your kids with their grandmother is exactly the sort of thing you want to do.
Like you I started by developing a meaningful, hierarchical set of folders. It can work reasonably well but as you expand your collection the folder structure starts to get messy and there are two really big problems with this system:
1. Folder organisation only lets you organise by one characteristic eg family members. BUT most of your photos will have multiple charactistics. Therefore if you want to quickly find all photos of Auntie Maud with your children when you were visiting Sydney last Christmas you cant do it because your organising mechanism only works in one dimension. You need a system that lets you assign multiple Metadata entries to each photo (eg. Auntie Maud, Children, Christmas, Sydney) and then search using AND, OR criteria. I started off using IMATCH for this but now I'm in the process of converting to Lightroom so as to simplify my workflow.
2. The other reason not to use nested folders based on content is archiving. If you have 1 folder for Children it will contain shots from each year. If you want to archive it you have to backup the lot each time. Over 20 years that could get huge! What I'm now doing is locating all photos in a folder for each year AND all photos are heavily coded with metadata.
Using these method I can find things by multiple criteria AND efficiently archive things over time.
It works, I've just got to be disciplined.
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