Mastering Digital Scanning with Slides, Film, and Transparencies | 
 enlarge | Author: David D. Busch
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Category: Book
List Price: $39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 372110
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 328
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 1592001416
Dewey Decimal Number: 070
UPC: 082039501413
EAN: 9781592001415
ASIN: 1592001416
Publication Date: October 29, 2003
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Product Description
According to the Photo Marketing Association's 2003 Review and Forecast, 988 million rolls of film will be sold in the United States alone, along with another 210 million one-time-use film cameras. We're as likely to see filmless photography anytime soon as we are to work in a paperless office. "Mastering Digital Imaging with Slides, Film, and Transparencies" approaches this hot topic from the photographer's viewpoint rather than that of the graphics guru or PC hardware maniac. It covers do-it-yourself solutions, like slide copy attachments for digital cameras (a widely available but almost unknown accessory) and building your own back-light source for your flatbed.
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 I'm Returning This Out of Date Book February 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book may have been useful in 2003 when it was written, but in the hyper changing digital world, it's now (2008) seriously out of date. As a consequence nearly everything specific about particular hardware or software is not useful. I'm returning the book.
 What a disappointment! September 10, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book actually made me angry. I feel the title is misleading to the point of fraud. Not only will you not master slide scanning (or any scanning) with this book, you won't even get to first base. The author natters on and on about everything under the sun remotely connected to scanning but gives next to no information on how to actually scan! Some people are saying that it might be good for beginners, but I really disagree. It's almost completely lacking basic, basic information anybody, especially beginners, would need to get good results. I am in complete agreement with the critical reviews by Mark Zelyony, Bernd Schneitler, and Mick36522. Conversely, I am amazed at some of the laudatory reviews. Whatever you guys are smoking, I want some too!
 The Book was great! April 6, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I thought the book went through step by step which is ferry help full I real recommend this to Slide person or somebody an pictures the book is ferry help full the best book on the shelf!!!!!!!!!!
 Mastering Digital Scanning with Slides, Film & Transparencies February 19, 2007
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Excellent text and tons of infromation, too much for the casual user. For someone serious about scanning from film media it's excellent. Someone wanting to scan objects or photos should find another source.
Mastering scanner stuff buying October 15, 2006
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book should have been called "What can you buy if you are thinking about playing with scanner", and it is good at that. It does not tell you much about scanning, it is more about buying equipment, and possibly software related to scanning. Just think about it: There is a chapter "Where to buy", and a chapter "Buying on ebay". There is no chapter "Do this if you miss shadow detail", though. This book is aimed at a high school student who is doing his/her first steps with a film camera and wants to get those pictures into the computer (is there such a person these days?) The book even mentions cross processing. No, it does not say what should you do if you need to scan a cross-processed film. It just says that you can process your film in the wrong developer and it will affect the image on the film.
I was greatly impressed by the chapter on sending off your slides for scanning. Well you definetly need a book to tell you that you can do that, and it greatly improves your scanning skills
If I had a chance to look at the book at the local store I would not ever buy it. Now it goes back to Amazon.
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