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Mastering Digital Scanning with Slides, Film, and Transparencies
Mastering Digital Scanning with Slides, Film, and Transparencies

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Author: David D. Busch
Publisher: Course Technology PTR
Category: Book

List Price: $39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 20 reviews
Sales Rank: 215980

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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
If you want to work with your traditional film images electronically, this is the guide that will finally show you how you can do it. "Mastering Digital Scanning" takes a photographer's viewpoint to the topic of digitizing, managing, and enhancing film-based images. You'll learn how to use your scanner's options to your best advantage and how to perfect your image once it becomes digital. You don't have to give up the advantages of conventional photography to enjoy the ease of digital manipulation!


Customer Reviews:   Read 15 more reviews...

2 out of 5 stars I'm Returning This Out of Date Book   February 8, 2008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may have been useful in 2003 when it was written, but in the hyper changing digital world, it's now (2008) seriously out of date.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.


1 out of 5 stars What a disappointment!   September 10, 2007
 1 out of 4 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!


5 out of 5 stars The Book was great!   April 6, 2007
 3 out of 7 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!!!!!!!!!!


4 out of 5 stars 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.


2 out of 5 stars Mastering scanner stuff buying   October 15, 2006
 15 out of 17 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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