*A simple idea than most camcorder users don’t use”

It amazes me when I see friends who come back from a
vacation with numerous tapes of their trips and now have
to start figuring out what’s on each tape. Most of the time
It’s one big job trying to remember which church steeple that
was or in which city was the interesting grave yard etc. etc.
This is a very common problem that can be solved very
simply.

Go to your nearest plastic store and get a piece of rigid
plastic about 10” wide by 8 “high. You may be able to find
a piece around your house. Now take some thin black tape
and put it on the plastic so that you have 9 different areas.
You might divide the surface of the plastic by having
two vertical strips and two horizontal strips.

This will give you the 9 areas that you can write in with a dry erasable
marker. You could have less than 9 and you can make up your own designations on the plastic but you may want to have headings like: date, City, the tape number (important if you have lots of tape) time of day, and any other designations that will help you.

What you do now is keep this piece with you in your bag
whenever you are going to shoot something. You simply
make sure the camera lens is on the wide angle setting.
then just mark your plastic with the info and hold it out in
front of your camera for a few seconds before you shoot
anything.

All your tapes will be numbered and you will have a great
Identification of all the material you shot. Pretty simple
stuff but you will appreciate your efforts when you come
to look at the tapes later.