Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives - A large number of contemporary photographers have either moved into digital photography exclusively or use both analog and digital media in their work.
In either case, there is probably an archive of slides and negatives that you can neither directly integrate into the new digital workflow nor archive them in a digital format. More and more, photographers are trying to bridge this gap using high-performance film scanners.
How to achieve the best possible digital image from a negative or slide, and how to build a workflow to make this process efficient, repeatable and reliable, is the subject of this book. The author uses Nikon's film scanners throughout, but all steps can easily be followed using a different scanner.
The most common software tools for scanning (SilverFast, VueScan, NikonScan) are not only covered extensively in the book, but are also provided on a CD along with other useful tools for image editing, as well as numerous sample scans.