Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives | 
| Author: Sascha Steinhoff
Publisher: Rocky Nook
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Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 13688
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1 Pap/Dvdr
Pages: 249
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1933952016
Dewey Decimal Number: 771.4
EAN: 9781933952017
ASIN: 1933952016
Publication Date: February 9, 2007
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Product Description
A large number of contemporary photographers have either moved into digital photography exclusively or use both analog and digital media in their work. In either case, there is most likely an archive of slides and negatives which cannot be directly integrated into the new digital workflow, nor can it be archived in a digital format. More and more, photographers are trying to bridge this gap using high-performance film scanners. How to achieve the best possible digital image from a negative or slide, and how to build a workflow to make this process efficient, repeatable, and reliable, is the subject of this book. The author uses Nikon's filmscanners throughout, but all steps can easily be followed using a different scanner. The most common software tools for scanning (SilverFast, VueScan, NikonScan) 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.
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 Good introduction to scanning March 26, 2007
Rakesh Malik (Silver Spring, MD USA)
66 out of 71 found this review helpful
This is a well written book that will guide someone new to scanning slides and negatives through the learning process. The author uses plain English and a lot of good examples to show how to optimize your scan settings in NikonScan, VueScan, and SilverFast. If you're interested in learning to scan negatives and slides, this book will help you learn what you need to know to choose a film scanner and how to use it.
There are probably other books out there that are more detailed than this one, but as far as introducing you to the world of scanning and getting you started on learning how to maximize your scans, this is a great book.
Expertise, experienced and articulate August 13, 2007
J. CRAWFORD (Tucker, Georgia United States)
35 out of 38 found this review helpful
This knowlegdgable and articulate assessment of scanning, hardware and software is very targeted for the serious hobbists, diys as well as professional. I found numerous excerpts that matched perfectly with my semi-professional (small and local photo conversion business) level of experience, which added much credibility to the rest of the book. Especially strong, detailed and valuable information was presented on the Nikon Coolscan 5000, which is our scanner. This is the best of my scanner books and it gives us a few more accurate and helpful options in pulling out the best images from our scans. The printed photographs themselves were in such high detail that they clearly illustrated what the author was writing about. These photos coupled with the articulate text make this book a technical show and tell of scanning. I highly recommend this book as a valuable resource to my fellow photo scanners.
Jim Crawford
TuckerPhotoConversions
 If you want some introduction to scanning, buy it. If you want to improve your scanning, search elsewhere November 11, 2007
NG S. T. Nevin (Hong Kong)
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
I'm an amateur photographer who is learning how to scan film. When I see this book I'm very excited and expect it can improve my skill in getting a better output. To be frank I'm totally disappointed when I read the book. The book gives you a very good introduction about scanners, basic scanning principle and terminology, and popular scanning software like Nikon Scan, Vuescan and Silverfast........and it ends here.
If you expect it teaches you how to tweak options in these software? Look elsewhere. If you expect it teaches you how to extract every details from a film using a particular software? Look elsewhere. If you expect it teaches you how to handle a problematic film? Look elsewhere. If you expect it teaches you varies in-depth workflows in scanning film? Look elsewhere.
Even the pictures in the book are bad. e.g. How you can illustrate the sharpness effect of a curl film in scanning if your picture is not sharp in the first place?
Bottom line: If you know nothing about scanning, this maybe a good book for you to get "just" started. If you've been using your scanner already, skip this book and use the money to buy more film.
Great Reference For Photo Editors June 22, 2007
Daniel McKinnon (Tewksbury, MA USA)
27 out of 34 found this review helpful
For any professional or amateur photo editors out there, one of the trickiest things to do and do well is scan pictures and get the output to look as good as a regular film or digital print. Whether it's scratches, dust, or other artifacts, negatives and slides rarely look perfect and it's no exact science to getting things to look better. Have no fear though, there is a book for YOU! 'Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives' by Sascha Steinhoff takes this subject matter and lifts the hood up to get into the nuts and bolts of how to create fantastic digital results with little effort. Packed with 200+ pages of material spread out over 15 chapters, the author talks about the basics of how to choose equipment to digital editing techniques to storing and backing up your images to learning about the different tools out on the market for manipulation to... well let's just say there is a lot of meat contained within these pages!
rocknook really has taken the editing and multimedia publishing world by storm, putting out solid, colorful, and well edited books. This title is no exception and it is easy to recommend. If you work with negative and/or slides, you owe it to yourself to pick up this book and learn the art of producing a better end result.
Enjoy!!
**** RECOMMENDED
 Take it or Leave it. April 4, 2007
Morrie J. Farbman
24 out of 33 found this review helpful
I did not find very much that was helpful for me. I have been scanning for 4 years and did not see anything new for me. A good book for a beginner but if you have experience then take a pass.
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