Nikon F6, Ilford XP2 Super 400
When I take a picture with a digital camera, it records date, time, lens, shutter speed, and a hundred other bits of information. It even records GPS coordinates if I connect the camera to my phone.
The Nikon F6 also records quite a bit of information for each photo in its internal memory. It stores film speed, frame number, shutter speed, f-stop, focal length, metering mode, lens, date, time and a few other things such as exposure compensation. This can be read off the camera's rear LCD or downloaded as a text file to a CF card by using the MV-1 data reader. The MV-1 is no longer manufactured (nor is the F6) and sellers want silly money for one now. When I remember to do so, I spend a long time writing the information from the camera to the scanned film on my computer. Not much fun, so I just do it for my keepers. And, to be honest, I often just limit myself to recording the date and time.
My Minolta X-700 records nothing but a picture on film. That's fine, but I do like to have the date, time, and location for purposes of sorting photos in computer. So what I started doing when I put the latest roll of film in the camera was
1) make the photo
2) take the same photo using my mobile phone, which records the when and where automatically
3) write camera name, film type, frame number, location and/or description as the digital photo's caption. I don't bother with shutter speed or anything
4) transfer those phone pictures to a folder on my computer for that roll of film.
When I finish the roll of film and get the scans back, the plan is to put them in the same folder as the digital versions. When I've chosen my keepers, I'll copy the information from the phone pictures to the film scans and edit the capture time to reflect shooting time rather than date and time of the scan.
It's a pain in the arse to do all this, but it's useful when you use both digital and film cameras and you want them neatly sorted in your computer.
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