Steinhoff, Sascha. Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing your Photographic Archive, 2e. Rocky Nook. 2009. 240p. ISBN 978-1-933952-30-7. pap. $44.95
This book is a valuable addition to the field of digitizing negatives and slides. It covers a wide range of topics, including hardware considerations (from scanners and digital SLR cameras to flatbed and specialized film scanners); readers will also find a nice overview, with workflows, of image capture and editing software. The author goes beyond standard fare such as bit depth and dynamic ranges to explain various types of RAW formats, and includes a useful section on the recovery of images damaged by scratches and dust. Scanning Negatives and Slides is not intended as a stand-alone title for inexperienced readers, or for those without at least some familiarity with digitization issues; it will be most appropriate for photographers, professional archivists, and digital librarians. Recommended for medium to large libraries, museums, and archives with an active digitization program, as well as for special libraries that collect for photographers and/or art galleries.
Steve McCann is the Digital Projects Librarian at The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana.
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