Sascha Steinhoff
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Total reviews: 17
Average rating: 4.0 of 5
Excellent Book! 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.
I read this book cover to cover. As someone who has been using scanners since the 80286 days with a hand scanner, I liked to think I knew a thing or two about scanning and imaging editing.
After I began to read this book, I quickly realized, I knew little about the intricacies of scanning photo's, and next to nothing about slide and negative scanning.
This book comes with a CD with sample software and images to let you try some of the same things you read about in the book.
If you are thinking about buying a slide scanner, but haven't yet, I recommend reading this book first. You WILL be glad you did.
The book is written in a way that will assist the absolute beginner, and also no doubt, provide a few 'aha!' moments for an expert.
Editorial Review:
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.
