Scanners & Accessories
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Digitizing film negatives requires specific gear and camera settings, so Lotta is here to share her workflow for scanning negatives with a mirrorless or DSLR camera. She'll let you know what to keep in mind through the process, and much more.
0:00 - Intro
0:17 - The Techniques
0:58 - The Gear
2:00 - Set Up
2:38 - Camera Settings & Shooting
4:00 - Post Processing
5:14 - Tips for Better Results
My grandparents have a lot of papers. Between their personal documents and reams of files from owning a small business, trying to pare down enormous stacks of paper has been no easy task. Over the weekend, I boarded NJ Transit with an ADS-3300W Scanner tucked under my arm to see if this bad boy could make a dent in their filing drawers.
Picture editing is an integral part of the photographic process, and this holds true whether your format is film or digital. Digital shooters typically upload images to their computers, tablets, or phones, edit the files in Lightroom, Photoshop, or comparable editing program, and, with a few keystrokes output wall-size murals or scaled-down Instagram posts.
The tools and workflow of film editing are different. Editing film requires a light table, magnifier or loupe, storage sleeves, and, if you plan on digitizing your film images, a film
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Polaroid Originals has introduced The Polaroid Originals Lab, a sleek-looking desktop “photo lab” that converts your smartphone photographs into square-format Polaroid prints. Making prints from your smartphone is as easy as selecting the photo you want to print on your phone, placing your phone face down on top of the device, pressing the red button, and your print popping out from the base of the unit.
Despite several semi-successful attempts at purging my archive of more than four decades of color slides and negatives, I still have a good number of analog images I need to digitize and archive. After completing this process, except for maybe 10% of my very, very best negatives and slides, I plan on bagging the lot and hauling it off to a nearby shredding center.
I parted with my darkroom long ago. I’ve since had a few spins around the block with a succession of film and flatbed scanners, but these days the only way I can view film images is
The world has gone digital, so make sure all your memories are, as well, with the latest film scanners from Pacific Image. Three new models have been announced, all of which will handle 35mm film, though each in different ways and with different features.
PowerFilm Scanner
First up is the fast, batch-optimized PowerFilm. Limited to 35mm strips, this scanner offers auto batch scanning of up to 10 strips of 6 frames at a single time. Color
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In this video, photographer David Flores demonstrates how to digitize film slides with the Nikon ES-2 Digitizing Adapter. He discusses some of the techniques he uses for capturing the best image possible from each slide, including shooting in raw format, using a compact lens, lighting your slides with an LED, enabling autofocus, and more. Check it out!
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Your digital camera can be used to make very high-quality scans of film and prints at unprecedented speed and cost. These techniques are in use in the Library of Congress, at major museums, and in photo collections worldwide. Learn how the process can help you digitize photo collections on a scale that you never thought possible. This presentation is essential information for anyone who needs to digitize a collection, including photographers, family historians, and corporate media managers.
Peter Krogh presents the techniques from his new
Able to scan your 4 x 6” prints at a seriously impressive rate of one scan per second at 300 dpi, the FastFoto FF-640 from Epson, which is now in stock, is laying claim to the title of world’s fastest photo scanner. This means that the daunting box of photographs and albums you keep stored in your attic can
Capture, optimize, and access files and documents quickly and efficiently with Fujitsu PaperStream Capture Pro, available on Windows. This easy-to-use, front-end scanning software streamlines your capture process with features such as document separation, indexing and validation, along with automated and manual QC. Here's a starting guide and a list of a few features worth checking out.
1. Predefined and Custom Profiles
There is no doubt that digital photography is here to stay, and film has certainly seen better days, in terms of availability and affordability. However, what if you’re a digital photographer who simply wants to shoot a roll of film every once in a while, for fun? Film photography has a distinct look that, even with the latest and greatest 50MP cameras, cannot be duplicated by digital imaging. It’s subjective to say whether one look is better or worse, but there is no denying that there is a unique quality to film. Back in the halcyon days of
In the following video, Larry Becker demonstrates the advantages and differences between three scanners from Fujitsu’s impressive lineup. Becker begins with the ultra-portable ScanSnap iX100 model, which provides men and women constantly on the move with a fast, high-quality wireless scanning solution. Next, he delves into the
In an age where darkrooms are scarce, yet film photography is seeing a resurgence in popularity, a scanner can be your best option for converting film originals to usable digital files for printing, sharing, and archiving. Whether you are an active film photographer or just have an archive of negatives and slides from the past, a film scanner is a useful, dedicated tool that will breathe new life into your film originals.
Ranging from the most basic models for simply producing a web-shareable image, to the top-of-the-line versions for
Chances are that most of you have a pile of family photo albums sitting in a box somewhere that rarely, if ever, get to see the light of day. We live in a world where photos are shared constantly through social media, text messages, and email. Wouldn’t you like to share those older family photos as well? Wouldn’t you love to surprise your sibling with a #TBT (throw-back Thursday) Instagram photo of them dressed in their favorite Halloween costume or a photo of your parents at their high-school prom? Well, accomplishing this might be easier