The Scanning basics section is BELOW.
And the Calculator section is BELOW that.
A Starting Point for Beginning to Learn Photography
Pixels, Printing dpi, Video dpi - What's With That? First Basic Fundamentals
Image Resize - Cropping, Resampling, Scaling Basics to use digital photos
White Balance Correction Click WB Tool on a White thing
Why Should I Shoot Raw? It's the easy way to get quality
Field of View of Lens and sensor, with calculator
Depth of Field and Hyperfocal with calculator, and a better way to blur the background
Crop Factor and Equivalent Focal Length, and the WHY of the Magnification illusion
f/stops and shutter speeds Understanding the numbers, and a few lens properties
File Types, Bit Depth, Image size, Memory size Details
What are JPG losses? JPG Artifacts
RGB color What is Digital Color?
How Light Meters Work - Maybe not as assumed
Details about Metering Principles - Including TTL flash
A Histogram is Not a Light Meter - Incident vs. Reflected meters
EV - Exposure Value and EV Chart
Sunny 16 Rule of daylight exposure
18% Gray Card - What's the Idea?
Kodak's Accurate Exposure with your Meter A classic
Do I need a handheld light meter? Sekonic L308S
Surprises in the Use of Histograms Use only the camera's three RGB histograms, NOT the single channel Gray histogram
Histograms are Gamma Encoded The numbers may not be what you think
What and Why is Gamma? with calculator for the histogram values
Introduction - Basics about light and flash
Inverse Square Law - Flash falls off with distance
Guide Numbers and calculator, for Manual flash exposure, even a HSS GN calculator too
Bounce Flash, and TTL Flash Compensation
Camera Distance Does Not Affect Exposure
Continuous light vs. Flash - Shutter Speed
Other Differences, Continuous vs Flash
Maximum Sync Speed The shutter limits it, Not the flash
HSS - High Speed Sync, What is it?
Flash pictures are Double Exposures - Learn to use it
Flash Outdoors - Fill Flash in Sunlight
Flash Indoors - Factors affecting TTL exposure
Auto ISO - but for flash?
Rear Curtain Sync - for Blur from Ambient Motion Trails
Matching White Balance of Room Lights - Colored Filters on Flash
A Beginners Guide to Select a Hot Shoe Flash, Part 2, chart
Guide Number calculator, even a HSS GN calculator too
Comparing Power of Flashes with Guide Number
Review of Yongnuo YN-565EX Speedlight
Review of Aperlite YH-700N Speedlight
Review of Neewer NW-985N Speedlight
Review of Neewer VK750 II Speedlight
Nikon TTL BL with D-Lens Distance - Lens distance accuracy is poor
Third Party Flash Brands Bypass the Inaccurate D-Lens Distance Problems
Comparisons of Optical Slave Triggers
Speed of Flash Units for High Speed Photography
Nikon TTL history - TTL, D-TTL, iTTL
The Main skill is to Learn to Actually "See" the Lighting
A Standard Portrait Lighting Setup
Mounting Speedlights in Umbrellas
Nikon CLS Commander Wireless Remote Flash System (AWL)
Lighting Kits for Home Setups - Flash is good for Portraits
Comparing Properties of Speedlights vs Studio Lights
Which is Softer, Reflected or Shoot-through Umbrellas?
Scanning Thousands of old Slides with a digital camera
Copying slides with a camera - calculator for macro lens or extension tube math
Curve Tool compared with Levels
How many megapixels in XxY pixels and Aspect Ratio?
Have we hit a megapixel limit?
Diffraction Limited Pixels? Really?
Memory Card Speed How much do we need?
Camera Exif Data Need a good Exif viewer?
Good Books on Flash Photography
Math tips of EV and precise camera numbers - f/stop, shutter, ISO
This scanning material is about the basics of scanning photos and documents. The purpose here is to offer some scanning tips about using your scanner, and to explain the basics for scanning photos and documents. It is also about the fundamentals of digital images, about the basics to help you get the most from your images from your scanner or camera. How it works, for those who want to know.
Included here are the general questions that we've all asked about digital images. The material is about the basics of scanning, certainly not superficial, but it is not at all difficult either, it is just simply about how it works. It describes in plain language the things we need to know to efficiently get the most from our images, in the various ways that we can use them.
Do realize that a digital camera is a scanner too, and its photos are already digitized (already scanned, so to speak), meaning, that the first preference, instead of scanning photo prints, is to use your original camera file if you still have it.
DPI resolution is one of the first concerns. Many newbies want to scan a photo at the greatest possible resolution. We'll explain why that's the very wrong answer, with tips about how to choose a more appropriate answer to match the actual job. That and many other scanning basics are covered here, and it's intended help newcomers to graphics and scanning of photos and documents. There will be a little technique to learn, but when you've seen it once, then it's rather simple.
Video Resolution - How much to scan?
Say No to 72 dpi - It's a false notion
File types, Bits, Image size, Memory size
Images for television or PowerPoint
Printing Resolution - Scaling and Resampling
The Scaling Menu - Scaling Output Size
Finding the Scaling and Resampling Menus
Printing Guidelines - Printing dpi
Printer Resolution - How much to scan?
Line art and Threshold - Copy, OCR, Text
Descreen to remove Moiré Interference
Images in printed media
Photo Resolution - How much can we scan?
Image File Formats - Which format?
Transparent Media Adapter - 35 mm slides?
Dynamic Range - 12 or 16 bits?
A few Links to Other scanning sites
A few Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ
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