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I'm returning the book. This book may have been useful in 2003 when it was written, but in the hyper changing digital world, it's now (2008) seriously out of date. As a consequence nearly everything specific about particular hardware or software is not useful.
Not only will you not master slide scanning (or any scanning) with this book, you won't even get to first base. It's almost completely lacking basic, basic information anybody, especially beginners, would need to get good results.
Conversely, I am amazed at some of the laudatory reviews. I am in complete agreement with the critical reviews by Mark Zelyony, Bernd Schneitler, and Mick36522.
This book actually made me angry. Some people are saying that it might be good for beginners, but I really disagree.
Whatever you guys are smoking, I want some too. I feel the title is misleading to the point of fraud.
The author natters on and on about everything under the sun remotely connected to scanning but gives next to no information on how to actually scan.
I thought the book went through step by step which is ferry help full I real recommend this to Slide person or somebody an pictures the book is ferry help full the best book on the shelf.
Someone wanting to scan objects or photos should find another source. Excellent text and tons of infromation, too much for the casual user. For someone serious about scanning from film media it's excellent.
There is no chapter "Do this if you miss shadow detail", though. I was greatly impressed by the chapter on sending off your slides for scanning. It does not tell you much about scanning, it is more about buying equipment, and possibly software related to scanning.
No, it does not say what should you do if you need to scan a cross-processed film. Well you definetly need a book to tell you that you can do that, and it greatly improves your scanning skillsIf I had a chance to look at the book at the local store I would not ever buy it. It just says that you can process your film in the wrong developer and it will affect the image on the film.
This book should have been called "What can you buy if you are thinking about playing with scanner", and it is good at that. The book even mentions cross processing. Now it goes back to Amazon.
Just think about it: There is a chapter "Where to buy", and a chapter "Buying on ebay". This book is aimed at a high school student who is doing his/her first steps with a film camera and wants to get those pictures into the computer (is there such a person these days).
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