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Title: Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives
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| Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives by Rocky Nook Excellent book |
| A real eye-opener for those wishing to delve deeply into scanning. The author's goal is clearly the pursuit of the highest quality scan within the capabilities of the level of equipment considered. Every facet of the activity seems to be covered, including discussions of the popular software packages currently being used for scanning. The theory behind scanning is also very well covered, and presented in a way that stimulates and educates at once. Must reading for anyone who is either ready to commence or just planning ahead. |
| Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives by Rocky Nook Digitizing Archives Excellence |
| Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)by Sascha Steinhoff is a perfect addition to my photography library. It is both a source book for instruction as well as a tool for solving particular problem areas as they come up in every day use. |
| Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives by Rocky Nook Great things to learn about scanning negs and the software to do it with. |
| Easy to read and reference and help you refine your way to streamline your scanning and getting great results. |
| Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives by Rocky Nook Scanning Slides and Negatives |
| While the book has some helpful information, it is all in all disappointing for readers who already own scanners and seek help in using them to best effect. Specifically, over 50 pages of the 230 in the book seem aimed at helping the reader decide WHETHER to digitize slides and negatives in the first place. I would have liked a clearer and more comprehensive explanation of whether, why, and how one can use the multitude of settings and tools on the better scanners. The writing, editing, and use of illustrations are passable but not as good as I had hoped and not nearly of the quality found, for example, in the Ben Willmore books on Photoshop. The Steinhoff book includes a DVD containing little of readily apparent value; the promised software turns out to be limited trial versions easily found on the web, should you want them. |
| Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives by Rocky Nook If you want some introduction to scanning, buy it. If you want to improve your scanning, search elsewhere |
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 tweaks 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. |
| Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives by Rocky Nook 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. |
