Scanning and Metadata for Film Photography

The Art of Photography

Ted Forbes

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🗓️ 25 August 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Scanning is essential in analog photography for digitizing your images and sharing them online. In this video I will discuss my secrets and techniques for scanning negatives as well as how I work with metadata on images that are not digitally native. http://meta35.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/tedforbes Instagram: http://instagram.com/tedforbes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aop.podcast Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tedforbes Website: http://theartofphotography.tv And get on our mailing list to stay up to date on photography news and the latest episodes: http://theartofphotography.tv/about/mailing-list/ Ted Forbes The Art of Photography 3100 Main St #135 Dallas, Texas 75226 Thanks for watching - if you like this video, remember to share it with your friends! My name is Ted Forbes and I make videos about photography. I’ve been making photographs most of my life and I have a tremendously deep passion for photography that I want to share with you on YouTube. The Art of Photography is my channel and I produce photography videos to provide a 360 degree look into the world of making images. We all want to get better so lets do this together! I make videos covering famous photographers, photography techniques, composition, the history of photography and much more. I also have a strong community of photographers who watch the show and we frequently do social media challenges for photographers to submit their own work. I feature the best and most interesting on the show when we do these so come check it out and get involved!

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0:00.0	Let's talk about scanning for a second. Now scanning is obviously a very
0:08.6	important step in the process of developing film where you're going to
0:12.0	digitize it and bring it into the
0:13.2	computer and this is probably the single thing that I get asked the most about in
0:17.6	conjunction with doing this show and the truth is and you can see my scanner
0:20.6	behind me I do not have a very fancy scanner.
0:23.2	In fact, it's very old, and at some point,
0:25.2	I'll have to replace it simply because the software
0:27.3	won't be able to keep up because that's getting old, too.
0:29.8	I've got an Epson 4870, and it's something I'd recommend not necessarily but scanners
0:35.8	aren't like cameras there's not a new scanner out every six weeks to check out
0:40.0	and look at specs on and most of the affordable options for people as far as
0:44.2	scanners go are going to be flatbed scanners now we're shooting 35 millimeter
0:47.8	film today and 35 millimeter is not exactly the easiest thing to do on a flatbed scanner. It does create
0:54.0	problems sometimes with keeping the film flat and there are other options
0:57.3	available. For me I know how to get really good scans using the scanner. I'm
1:01.5	going to tell you a little bit of what my
1:02.9	secret is to that. So that's why I have not upgraded to something else. I know that
1:06.9	there are other options and you guys might look into things like the Pac-on or
1:10.6	even some of the Nikon cool scan stuff that's just built for 35 millimeter
1:14.4	if you do a lot of that. I don't do exclusively 35 millimeter and I don't do it enough to
1:19.2	justify the cost that it would go in for me to buy an expensive scanner.
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