Camera Scanning Your Archives

Do you suffer, as I did, with headaches and anxiety attacks over boxes and boxes (and more boxes) of old negatives and slides? Is your spouse giving you dirty looks over those boxes and talking about, oh my goodness, downsizing? Well, scanning would work, but I’d need another lifetime to do all that scanning. Also, scanning seems to pull out every scratch and blemish in the negative or slide. This presentation will show you my workflow on how I’ve been doing camera scans, using a camera, a soft light source consistng of a simple viewing box, and some easy actions in either Photoshop and Lightroom (downloadable actions will be made available) to quickly process my negative files into positive files. It’s been a lot faster and easier than using a scanner. And a soft light source acts a bit like old-fashion nose grease (for those who remember working in a darkroom) filling in some scratches. Plus I get a chance to show the results, some of the “found gems” in my archives from 30, 40, and 50 years ago.