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Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives

Many photographers have either moved into digital photography exclusively or use both analog and digital media in their work. In either case, there is sure to be an archive of slides and negatives that cannot be directly integrated into the new digital workflow, nor can it be archived in a digital format. Increasingly, photographers are trying to bridge this gap with the use of high-performance film scanners. In this 2nd edition, you will learn how to achieve the best possible digital image from a negative or a slide, and how to build a workflow to make this process efficient, repeatable, and reliable. The author uses Nikon’s film scanners, but all steps can easily be accomplished while using a different scanner. The most co (more…)

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5.0 out of 5 stars
A winning survey for any involved in digital photography
SCANNING NEGATIVES AND SLIDES: DIGITIZING YOUR PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE tells how to handle an archive of slides and negatives that cannot be directly integrated into the new digital…

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4.0 out of 5 stars
The Best Book on Film Scanning Presently Available
Having read both the first and second editions of this book, I highly recommend it to those who are new to film scanning or wish to broaden or refresh their knowledge about film…

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3.0 out of 5 stars
Okay
The book explains all the scanning terms and has numerous examples but I would liked to have seen more suggestions for scanning procedures.

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Helpful
This is a textbook for one of my classes. It is in great condition. It is written so it is easily understood.

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2.0 out of 5 stars
slide scanning dook doesnt help enough
it ok but to much filler. not enough specfics onto fine detail on how to

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1.0 out of 5 stars
Waaaay over my headThis book was over my head as an amateur. At a glance, I knew that they were referring to equipment and activities that I didn’t even know existed.

Luz
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Scanning for Those With the Time To Do It
This is a book that should appeal to the baby boomer generation. Most of us have slides of our childhood, or prints from our grandparents life scattered through our homes, often…

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Helpful Reading
I found this to be very useful in helping me decide what scanner to purchase as it lightly covered the various software packages that were sold with film scanners.

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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent for the intermediate photographer
For those with little photography or scanning experience (i.e., not knowing about bits or resolution) this book would be of little value.

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4.0 out of 5 stars
Well written
Excellent book … covers a lot of basics on the options currently available out there. Definiely reccmd it to anyone considering digitizing your archive of negatives and slides.

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