Scanning negatives and slides : digitizing your photographic archives / Sascha Steinhoff
- Bib ID:
- 6973309
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Steinhoff, Sascha, 1975-, author
- Uniform Title:
- Digitalisieren von Dias und Negativen. English
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Description:
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- Santa Barbara, CA : Rocky Nook Inc., 2007
- ©2007
- xii, 239 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm. + 1 CD ROM (12 cm)
- ISBN:
-
- 1933952016
- 9781933952017
- Summary:
-
Many photographers have either moved into digital photography exclusively or use both analog and digital media in their work.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Contents
- 1 Introduction 1
- Analog and Digital Workflow 2
- Analog Workflow for Negative Film 2
- Analog Workflow for Slide Film 3
- Hybrid Workflow: Shooting Analog, Scanning, Digital Processing 4
- Digital Workflow: Digital Shooting and Digital Editing 6
- Alternatives to the Film Scanner 8
- Megapixel (MP) in Comparison: DSLR, Film Scanner, 35mm Film 8
- Digital Single Lens Reflex Cameras 10
- Flatbed Scanners with Transparency Adapter 12
- Scanning Prints 15
- Shooting a Projected Slide with a Digital Camera 17
- Duplicating Slides with DSLR and Slide Copy Attachment 17
- Film Processing with Photo CD 17 Photo CDs from Kodak 18
- Fujicolor CD 19
- Comparison: Photo CDs vs. Manual Scan 19
- Professional Scanning Services 19
- 2 Performance Characteristics of Film Scanners 23
- Key Specifications of a Film Scanner 24
- Nominal Resolution 24
- PPI, SPI, and DPI: Units for Resolution 26
- Determining the Actual Resolution with USAF-1951 Test Chart 27
- Color Depth of Scanner 28
- Color Depth in Image Processing: 8-Bit or 16-Bit? 28
- Density Range 30
- Scanning Speed 32
- Implemented Image Corrections 32
- Supported Film Formats and Bulk Scanning 33
- Scanner Light Sources 35
- It's All in the Lens 38
- Scanhancer 38
- Scanhancer with Black and White Negatives 40
- Scanhancer with Color Slides 40
- Scanhancer with Kodachrome Slides 41
- Scanhancer and Color Calibration 43
- Interfaces: Connection between Scanner and Computer 44
- Life After the Purchase 46
- Learning Curve 46
- Which PC is suitable? 46
- Noise 47
- Customer Support 47
- Firmware Updates 48
- Software Support 48
- Wish List for Future Film Scanners 49
- Depth of Field 52
- Ergonomics 52
- 3 Scanning Film 53
- Handling Film 54
- Curled, wavy film 54
- Physically Removing Dust 55
- Inserting Film Correctly 56
- Finding the Emulsion Side 56
- Handling Film Strips 56
- Destroy Originals after Scan? 57
- Film Types 57
- Color Negatives 57
- Color Slides 58
- Kodachrome Slides 60
- Black and White Negatives 60
- The Ideal Film for Scanning 61
- Slide Mounts: Glass and Glassless 63
- Glass Mounts 63
- Glassless Mounts 63
- 4 File Formats 65
- Digital Negative 66
- Differences between Digital Cameras and Film Scanners 66
- Working with Digital Negatives 66
- Conventional Image Editors 67
- Image Processing at RAW Level 67
- Color Depth in Image File Formats 68
- Important Image File Formats in the World of Scanning 70
- JPEG - Compact, but Lossy 70
- JPEG 2000 - Lossless Compression 71
- TIFF - Lossless Compression 71
- Cmyk-Tiff 72
- BMP (Windows) and PICT (Macintosh) 72
- RAW: Proprietary Image File Formats 72
- RAW Files in Detail: Nikon's NEF Format 74
- The Right Image Size and Resolution 77
- Absolute Resolution, Relative Resolution, and Output Size 77
- Film Scanner Resolution and Maximum Print Size 78
- 5 Color Management in Theory and Practice 81
- Why Color Management? 82
- Basics 82
- The Relative Definition of Colors 82
- Gamut 83
- Gamma 83
- Scanning, Viewing, Editing, and Printing 83
- Color Models 84
- Additive Color Model RGB 84
- Subtractive Color Model CMY(K) 85
- Lab 85
- Color spaces 86
- Considerations for Selecting a Color space 86
- sRGB, Adobe RGB, etc.: Color spaces for Gamma 2.2 86
- Apple RGB, etc.: Color spaces for Gamma 1.8 87
- Conversion between Color spaces 87
- ICC Profiles 88
- Purpose of ICC Profiles 88
- Definition of Calibration and Profiling 89
- Input Profiles 89
- Output Profiles 90
- Display Profiles 90
- Color Management Modules in Operating System and Application 91
- Download ICC Profiles or DIY? 91
- Monitor Calibration in Practice 92
- Software Calibration vs. Hardware Calibration 92
- Monitor Calibration via Software 92
- Monitor Calibration via Hardware with ColorVision Spyder 2 92
- Limits of Monitor Calibration 95
- Generating ICC Scanner Profiles 95
- Scanner Calibration with SilverFast 95
- 6 Scanning Methods 97
- Thumbnail Index - Filmstrip Offset and Presorting 98
- Preview - Corrections before the Scan 98
- Cropping the Image 99
- Image Corrections before the Scan 100
- Difference between Scanning Program and Image Editor 101
- Scan - Create the Image File 102
- Single and Batch Scan 102
- Multi-Sampling 103
- Scanning Correction Filters in Detail 105
- Dust and Scratch Removal in Software 106
- SilverFast SRD 106
- SilverFast iSRD 108
- Dust and Scratch Removal in Hardware 110
- Digital ICE 110
- ICE and FARE for Kodachrome Slides 112
- ICE and FARE for Black and White Negatives 114
- Infrared Clean - Scratch Removal in VueScan 114
- Restoring Faded Colors 115
- Nikon Scan: Digital ROC 115
- VueScan: Restore Fading 115
- Grain Equalization 117
- Digital GEM 117
- VueScan Grain Reduction 117
- SilverFast GANE 119
- Highlight and Shadow Recovery 120
- Digital DEE - Correction for Highlights and Shadows 120
- SilverFast AACO - Auto Adaptive Contrast Optimization 120
- 7 Configuring the Scanning Software 121
- Image Orientation 122
- Rotating and Mirroring the Image 122
- Cropping 122
- Setting Your Own Focus Point 123
- Filmstrip Offset 125
- Image Properties 125
- Color Balance 126
- Unsharp Masking 129
- Curves 130
- Working with Histograms 131
- Before/After Histogram Button and Auto Contrast 132
- Black Point and White Point 133
- Setting the Gray Point 134
- LCH Editor 135
- Analog Gain 139
- 8 Nikon Scan 141
- Installation 142
- Look and Feel 143
- Layout of the Scan Window 143
- Saving Configurations 147
- The "Settings" Menu 147
- Preferences 150 Color Management 153
- Input Profiles / Scanner Profiles 153
- Monitor Profiles 154
- Color Space Profiles 154
- Film Profiles 156 Documentation 157
- Conclusion 158
- 9 VueScan 159
- Purchase and Installation 160
- Look and Feel 161
- Input 162
- Crop 163 Filter 164
- Color Settings 165
- Output Parameters 166
- Prefs 167
- RAW Data 168
- Documentation 169
- Conclusion 170
- 10 SilverFast 171
- SilverFast SE, Ai, Ai Studio, and HDR 172
- Installing the Scanning Programs 172
- Look and Feel 172
- SilverFast Main Window 173
- Prescan 174
- Overview 174
- NegaFix 175
- Densitometer 175
- Picture Settings 175
- JobManager for Batch Scans 176
- Set Basic Configuration with Options 176
- "General" Tab 176
- "Auto" Tab 176
- "CMS" Tab 177
- "Special" Tab 177
- Speeding up Scans 177
- Image Processing 177
- RAW Processing with SilverFast HDR 179
- Creating RAW Files 179
- Preselection on the Virtual Light Table (VLT) 180
- Scans from Disk with HDR 181
- Documentation 182
- Conclusion 183
- 11 Scan Workflows 185
- Vital Corrections before Scanning 186
- Level Adjustment: Before or after the Scan? 187
- Nikon Scan Workflow 188
- Scanning Slides Individually and with a Slide Feeder 188
- Nikon Scan: Batch Scanning of Negatives with Filmstrip Adapter 189 SilverFast Workflow 190
- Digitizing Black and White Negatives 190
- VueScan Workflow 191
- Scanning Single Slides 191
- VueScan: Scanning Negative Strips with the Filmstrip Adapter 192
- 12 Nikon Capture Editor 193
- RAW Processing in Capture 194
- Differences from Photoshop 194
- Upgrade to New Features in Capture with Updates 195
- Enter Registration Code before Update 196
- Lossless Rotation of JPEGs 196
- The User Interface 196
- Multi Image Light Box 196
- Palettes 197
- Quick Tools 198
- Features of Capture 198
- Cropping 199
- Straighten 199
- Lost Highlights and Shadows 200
- Markers 201
- Histogram 201
- Noise Reduction 201
- LCH Editor - Color Lightness 201
- D-Lighting: Successor to Digital DEE 202
- Red Eye Correction Now Also Possible in RAW 203
- Color Booster 204
- Photo Effects 205
- Capture NX 205
- Control Points instead of Layer Masks: Color Manipulation at RAW Level 206 Grain and Noise; Sharpening and Selection 207
- 13 Correcting with Photoshop and Photoshop Plug-ins 209
- Dust and Scratch Removal 210
- Removing Scratches with the Clone Stamp 210
- Healing Brush and Spot Healing Brush 211
- Dust and Scratch Removal Plug-in from Polaroid 212
- Image Corrections 213
- Correcting Perspective Distortion 213
- Selectively Correcting Shadows and Highlights 214
- Straightening Horizon 215
- Photoshop Plug-ins from Applied Science Fiction 216
- Grain Removal with Digital GEM 216
- Digital Fill-Flash with SHO 217
- Restoring Colors with Digital ROC 217
- Removing Color-Casts 218
- Match Color 220
- Noise Reduction with Noise Ninja 221
- Noise Reduction with Neat Image 222
- 14 Backup 223
- Saved Does Not Automatically Mean Safe 224
- Backup to Hard Disk 224
- Backup to the Same Partition 224
- Backup to an Additional Hard Disk 224
- Archiving on Removable Media 225 Optical Media: CD and DVD 225
- Image tape 226
- Image Management 226
- Setting Up an Image Database - Folder and File Structures 226
- Cataloging with IPTC Data 227
- Organizing Images with ThumbsPlus 229
- Batch Renaming Files: LupasRename 230
- Glossary 231
- Resources 235
- Index 237
- Thanks 240
- This DVD contains 241.
- Notes:
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- Translated from the German.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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