Next Tuesday, July 25th, the National Digital Initiatives group at the Library of Congress will present the second Collections as Data symposium. This wide-ranging day looks at the way data
This video from Digitizing Your Photos outlines two related types of film copying equipment – rail systems and bellows systems. I’ve been using these systems for more than a decade
UPDATE: We have a limited number of these units for sale. Contact us at support@theDAMbook.com Comes with 220mm rail, slide/negative stage, arca-compatible camera mount Base Price $300 Longer rail
When digitizing your photos, it’s important to capture any “nearby” information. Dates and notes on slide mounts, writing on the back of prints, notes on boxes and envelopes and other information
The easiest way to build a copy setup for film (slides, transparencies and negatives) is to lay a lightbox on the copy stand and then put a negative carrier on
This post kicks off a series of tips and techniques from Digitizing Your Photos. These posts will focus on a particular technique from the multimedia eBook, and include one of
We’re excited about the release of our new multimedia ebook, Digitizing Your Photos. It presents a comprehensive method for scanning photos with a digital camera, and managing the process with
Once again it was a great festival: fun, exhausting, and thought-provoking. Our talk, Adding Meaning and Context to Visual Media was a packed house, turning people away at the door. As
I have the pleasure of interviewing photographer Aaron Huey at the as part of the NatGeo Further base camp at SXSW tomorrow (Saturday March 11, 2017). Aaron is known for
Inquiring readers are asking, “What’s up with The DAM Book 3?” Wasn’t that supposed to be published by the end of 2016? As John Lennon famously sang (borrowing a phrase), Life is
