The Great Reorganization...

I love the part of High Fidelity when Rob is seen tackling the obligatory post-breakup album reorganization, and does it autobiographically. I would do that with my music, but the collection that actually includes all the stuff that I associate with a certain period in my life is on my computer, so it doesn't have quite the same feel as having what looks like a completely random organization of your albums, but actually have it mean something.
Along those same lines (well, somewhat, as I haven't broken up with anybody, and this particular organization is done chonologically, but for a specific reason), I've just now finished organizing my aviation photos directory on Ray's Pictures Server, which I use as a backup location for my best stuff. The directory is now current, and I've organized everything chronologically, so its easy to tell how my style and skills have changed over the course of about the past year. So, for those of you reading this, Enjoy.
I also had my first encounter with another spotter (aside from Amy, of course) today when I was at Livermore Municipal (LVK). It was interesting, because he was shooting film (Nikon F5, 300/2.8, 2x Teleconverter, for those that care), which I was under the impression was something that had sort of gone the way of the Dodo in this hobby, as you end up spending a whole lot to develop film, and given that in almost all situations, you're bound to have a few photos at least which aren't usable, or are duplicates, it would seem like shooting film would not only be slow (in terms of time from shot to publishing), but also prohibitively expensive. As an example, since the end of school, I've taken 2354 photos of aircraft (good lord, that's insane, now that I look at it as a number). I figure that it would be closer to 1800 had I been shooting film, as I'd be more conservative. That's 50 rolls of 36-exp. film. Figure a cost of $1.85 a roll for basic Kodak Gold 200 film (which probably gives average results close to what I'm getting after post-processing the images from my Canon D30). That's about a hundred bucks for film alone (when shipping is taken into account), and processing usually runs at a minimum $4.00 a roll, giving a total cost of about $300. Thats actually about half of what I paid for my camera. Lets just say I think I'll be sticking with digital for quite some time.

posted by Fred Gay @ 01:20