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 broaches 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.
About the Author: Before David D. Busch was seduced by the dark side of technology, he was a professional photographer. He's made his living as a sports photographer for an Ohio newspaper and an upstate New York college; he's operated his own commercial studio and photo lab; and served as photo-posing instructor for a modeling agency. People have actually paid him to shoot their weddings and immortalize them with portraits.
He's written several thousand articles on photography as a PR consultant for a large Rochester, N.Y. company which shall remain nameless. His trials and travails with imaging and computer technology have made their way into print in book form, including eight tomes on scanners and six on photography. Hometown: Ravenna, Ohio. Recent books: Digital Photography for Dummies All in One Desk Reference; ISBN: 0764518003 Digital Retouching and Compositing: Photographers' Guide; ISBN: 1932094199 Photoshop 7 Photographers' Guide, ISBN: 1929685688.
