![]() Traditionally, if you were scanning slides or negatives you would want a dedicated film scanner, such as the Nikon Super Coolscan 9000 ED, which produces stellar scans at a resolution of 4000 DPI for the astronomical price tag of over $1000 dollars USD. There are two basic types of photo scanners, flatbed and dedicated. Today let’s take a brief journey into the world of scanning, with the goal of making the best possible scan for manipulation in Lightroom.įirst, let’s consider a scanner. ![]() You should, however, take a look at what software you plan to edit these images in, and scan in your images with that in mind. Most people’s arguments for their method have merit, often erring on the side of disk space. ![]() There is a great deal of debate on proper scanner settings, scan resolutions, bit-depth and so forth. Scanning, in fact, is an art but it is only arcane if you let it be. Scanning images from prints, negatives and slides has taken on the air of an arcane art. Today let’s take a brief journey into the world of scanning, with the goal of making the best possible scan for manipulation in Lightroom. Whether your source material is a print, slide or a negative, you only have one option to make it a digital file, scanning. If you’re like me, you probably have a few shoe boxes full of old negatives from the days before digital.
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