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The Scanning of Colour and B&W Film and Photographs for Image Processing, Analysis and Archiving - On a Tight Budget

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Keith J. Morris
Keith J. Morris*
Affiliation:
Cell Biology Division, The Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL, UK
*
keith.morris@ucl.ac.uk

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Despite the advent of the new PC based digital camera era, there is still a vast archive of film. The obvious thing to do is to scan film optically using a high resolution film scanner and to convert the image into a digital file for digital distribution, PC archiving, and image processing. The likes of NASA can easily afford the best $20k plus PMT drum scanners and pro flatbed scanners for their spaceflight photo archives. See some professional scanners at http://www.imacon.dk, http://www.aztek.com, http://graphics.kodak.com (Creo) and http://www.flatbed-scanner-review.org. You can download selections from the NASA digitised archive at http://grin.hq.nasa.gov.

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , May 2006 , pp. 42 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2006

References

The internet is a very valuable source of information on photography and associated activities like scanning film. Most of the information is free to view, being provided by photography enthusiasts or scientific establishments. Below is a small selection of good photographic sites. Much of the information in this article relies heavily on these sites.Google Scholar
http://www.photoscientia.co.uk/Grain.htm for discussions of grain size.Google Scholar
http://www.datamind.co.uk/merchant/resolution.htm for some discussion of pixel and image file sizes.Google Scholar
http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips.html Bob Johnsons photographic pages.Google Scholar
http://www.thepluginsite.com/products/photowiz/index.htm The Photowiz website that offers USM plug-ins for Photoshop.Google Scholar
http://www.ted.photographer.org.uk/photoscience_colour.htm Ted's photographs, for discussions of colour photography.Google Scholar
http://www.mrothery.co.uk/vision/EyeNotes.htm The eye and colour perception.Google Scholar
http://www.colour.org.uk/ physics of colour.Google Scholar
http://www.screensound.gov.au Film and archiving.Google Scholar
http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/creating/colour2.html working with colour in print.Google Scholar
http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/hipr/html/gryimage.html greyscale information for B&W images.Google Scholar
http://www.scantips.com A lot of good scanning tips by Wayne Fulton. Also available as book. http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/scantek.htm Ken Rockwell scanning information.Google Scholar
http://medfmt.8k.com/mf/lenslpm.html Discussions on film resolution.Google Scholar
http://www.silverfast.com Producers of independent twain software for most scanners. Often supplied with the more expensive film scanners.Google Scholar
http://www.kodak.com Now the suppliers of Digital ICE, SHO, ROC & GEM, as well as the Creo range of large professional flatbed film scanners.Google Scholar
http://www.photo-i.co.uk Independent reviews of prosumer film scanners.Google Scholar
http://www.dpreview.com Independent reviews of digital cameras.Google Scholar
http://www.flatbed-scanner-review.org Pay per view scanner reviews for the professional.Google Scholar
http://www.pcpro.co.uk and http://www.computershopper.co.uk PC magazines provide many useful free reviews of cameras and scanners.Google Scholar
http://www.realviz.com/photo_stitching_software.htm Photo-stitching software: stitcher 4 for merging multiple images, e.g. multiple TEM fields, into one large image. Also used to create panarama's from multiple camera shots. Adobe Photoshop has the Photomerge application, but many free stitching utilities that come with digital cameras work better.Google Scholar