Exposure cards. Any pre-made?

[abiggs]

I have been making exposure cards that fit into a small binder (6" x 8") to record each image's properties. To tell you the truth, printing these sheets, cutting them to size, and punching holes in them is very time consuming (the hole puncher I have can only punch through 2 sheets at a time).

 

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Anyway, are there any pre-made sheets in booklets?

 

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Happy Thanksgiving, for those in the USA.

[sean_yates2]

Calumet/Zone VI used to sell "exposure records" that you clipped into

a handy palmed sized notebook. Don't know if they still do or not.

Ansel Adams includd the same form in his books for years so folks

could copy them...

[tim_atherton2]

Filofax used to do one too

[tim_atherton2]

Filofax used well -calumet has the refills on their site $4.00, but

not the small 6 ring 31/2x5 binder - search for "field data" comes up

with the zone vi refills

 

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[jeff_schraeder1]

Ansel Adams published one. A copy of it was up on ebay within the

last few days.

[dave_schneider]

Have you considered using a palm top computer? I started using the

Handspring version with software called "Photographe." I had suffered

with the same problem, notes were recorded on a notebook in the field

but this needed to be transferred to sheets that could be coordinated

with negative storage. Tried the cassette recorder but still had to

transcribe everything. This software on the palm top is great. Easy

to transfer data to Excel spreadsheet for printing. Always a

permanent record on the hard drive. The software also allows you to

simply pick from a pull down for your list of films, lenses, cameras,

etc. Previous shots data stays in the fields (optional) so you only

need to change the pertinent information such as exposure when

bracketing. I would encourage anyone to give this a try.

[abiggs]

That sounds like a great idea. Where would I find the software? I

have tried writing my own Palm app in Filemaker Mobile, but gave up.

I guess I am looking for that 'magic bullet', eh?

[dlabrosse]

palmgear.com has several shareware and freeware photography apps that

address the issue above. There are others apps that also deal with

other issues such as depth of field, zone system etc.

 

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Run a "photography" search and they should come up.

 

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Good Luck.

[dave_schneider]

Try this:

http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?

sid=94548520011115210805&prodID=1042

 

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Once you have your palm top you can also download Bob Wheeler's

excellent Vade Mecum software. Great tool for calculating tilt,

magnification, bellows factor, depth of field, etc. I don't know what

I would do without the palm top after having used it for several

months. Oh yeah, I do, I'd spend time looking under the car seat for

the scrap of paper that said which holders were N-1 development.