On 2/6/2016 1:27 PM, philo wrote:

I have thousands of technical documents -- but they are relatively easily
organized. How the hell do you file a photo of an eagle purched on
a dead branch overlooking some rapids? Wildlife? Birds? Water?
Season? etc.

At least if *I* go looking for a particular document, I have a pretty
good idea of where it *might* be stored...

Yep, I found it impossible to get my slides and negatives organized until I
finally scanned everything. Now I can do something with them finally.

SWMBO's problem is that she may want to "see" this photo when looking for
scenes of running water; or, wildlife; or the desert in winter; or...
As such, there's no "single key" that she can use to sort on.

*MY* photos -- as with my technical documents -- tend to have a single
governing theme, which I can use to sort them. E.g., I won't find a
document on a technique for drawing cubic bezier curves in amongst
some documents describing fabrication techniques for integrated
circuits!

As to digital cameras, I have a friend who is such a geek...even though he is
younger than me and skinnier, I've seen him just take a photo of something on
the ground so he does not have to bend over to take a closer look.

I am not quite that lazy

I have one of these:
https://www.activeforever.com/discovery-digest/081513/A16793-enhanced-vision-pebble-magnifier.jpg
that is capable of taking snapshots (not just "live magnification").

As it is designed for very short focal lengths (as a "magnifying glass"), I
find it handy when trying to see behind any of my computers (all of which
are located on the floor, under workbenches) to locate a particular
connector (and determine the *orientation* in which it lies!).

I can just reach behind the computer in question, press the
"snapshot" button, extract the device and look at the image on the
screen! Prior to this, I would have had to pull the machine out
and *tried* to get my face behind it to see the connectors.

I also have one of these:
http://www.nanopac.com/flipperport.htm (skip down to "Details")
that I will use when I need to work in an awkward position. I
can place the camera somewhere convenient and stable -- that has
a good view of my "objective". Then, with the glasses on (the
glasses have small displays in them so you see only what the
camera sees), I am free to move my head and hands however I
want without losing sight of the "objective".

It's weird looking in exactly the WRONG direction and still seeing
your hands working on something in great detail! :-/

[One of my interests is assistive technology. So, I have a large
assortment of AT devices that I've examined and evaluated over the
years...]