Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback) discusses on how to get the best possible digital image from a negative or slide, and how to build a work flow to make this process efficient, repeatable and reliable. The author has used Nikon's films canners throughout, but all steps can easily be followed using a different scanner. The most common software tools for scanning (Silver Fast, Vue Scan, Nikon Scan) are not only covered extensively in the book, but are also provided on a CD along with other useful tools for image editing, as well as numerous sample scans.
Nowadays, many of the contemporary photographers have either shifted towards the digital photography exclusively or use both analog and digital media in their work. In either case, there is a chance to get an archive of slides and negatives which cannot be directly integrated into the new digital work flow, nor can it be archived in a digital format. More and more, photographers are trying to bridge this gap using high-performance film scanners. |
