Need some fresh photo gift ideas for the Holidays? It seems the variety of things that can be custom emblazoned with your photos is expanding like never before. And one of the hottest trends in personal photography right now, Instagram, is spawning a whole new surge of photo products specifically designed to feed off the Instagram [...]

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If you are into photography, chances are you know a lot about traditional cameras and dark room processes or today’s latest digital imaging techniques, more likely both.  There are tons of books, magazines and online sites that cover traditional and digital photography – the art and the science. But perhaps not surprisingly, the topic of [...]

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Scanning photos can be a slow and tedious process. Results can vary due to the condition and quality of the original photograph, scanner used, scanner software/settings, and digital image processing. Creating high quality digital images from prints, slides and negatives is both an art and science. Knowledge of both traditional photography and digital image processing [...]

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If you have a large collection of old Kodachrome transparencies to be digitally preserved, there are a few options available to convert slides to digital. The obvious one is to buy an affordable flat-bed scanner equipped with a transparency adapter and start slide scanning. Another option is to use your high-end DSLR camera to digitize [...]

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Just in time for Thanksgiving this year, a fellow by the name of Tom Pappalardo (Tom Pappalardo/Standard Design) stumbled upon some old reels of 8mm film. The film contained amazing color footage of the 1939 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. A common reaction to such a find is “wow, I wonder what I might find among [...]

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As with scanning photos, there is a growing realization that digitizing those valuable collections of movie film and video tape is an important and timely undertaking. Although the risks of loss and deterioration vary across different media types, there is a compelling argument for digitally preserving sooner rather than later. When it come to transferring video [...]

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There are many challenges when converting negatives to digital through traditional photo scanning techniques. For color negatives, perhaps the biggest issue is color accuracy. Unlike positive images, it is not possible to calibrate colors to match a target when scanning negatives and the orange mask, unique to negatives, adds even more complexity to the conversion. [...]

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A fundamental problem with scanning photos, converting slides to digital and scanning negatives is color definition. Despite advances in digital image processing, there has yet to be defined a standard of color that can be applied across an entire photo scanning workflow. That means the essential devices and tools needed for scanning photos (e.g. scanner, [...]

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One could say the online world is both loved and loathed by professional photographers these days. Loved for the new sharing, learning, and communication opportunities it enables – and loathed (at least by some) for eroding many of the traditional commercial markets for images. Gone are the days of lucrative agency deals and exclusive relationships [...]

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Scanning negatives to dvd or your PC hard drive to digitize photos can be a challenge. As suggested, converting negatives to digital images has it’s own set of technical hurdles that are sometimes different than other types of photo scanning. Most top-end negative scanners have the best of today’s technologies built-in, nevertheless, there are many issues [...]

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