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by Mark D Segal & Todd R Shaner
Remember the film era? It’s demise began setting-in roughly two decades ago, and about all that’s left is a reduced stable of good scanning hardware and those millions of negatives in countless personal and institutional collections that many people really intend to “do something about” - “one of these days”. The problem is that the truly high quality film scanners of yesteryear are discontinued or cost a small fortune, those that hit the resale market are also expensive, and those that people own will become increasingly difficult to service as time marches onward, parts become scare and experienced technicians retire or pass on. The “digital revolution” from capture to print has taken-over in a remarkably short period of time.
The technology that won’t be disappearing any time soon is that useful for photographing the film media with a digital camera and processing the files with imaging software. While there’s nothing new about this idea, Mark and...

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Mark has been making photographs for the past six decades and started adopting a digital workflow in 1999 first with scanning film, then going fully digital in 2004. He has worked with a considerable range of software, equipment and techniques over the years, accumulated substantial experience as an author, educator and communicator in several fields and is a frequent contributor to the Luminous-Landscape website. Mark developed a particular interest in film scanning and authored the ebook “Scanning Workflows with SilverFast 8, SilverFast HDR, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop” available on the SilverFast website. In his “other life” (the one that pays for the photography), Mark is a retiree from the World Bank Group and now a consultant in electric power development.
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