Digitizing Film

CHF 120.00

Datum: 07.02.2026 15:00 - Mark Segal

As traditional film scanners become less common, the use of digital cameras to digitize film has grown rapidly. At the same time, film photography itself is experiencing a remarkable revival — with many photographers digitizing their negatives for preservation, printing, and presentation.

This workshop is designed for anyone interested in mastering modern techniques for digitizing film and post-processing digital images of colour and black-and-white negatives. Over the course of roughly 90 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of discussion, we’ll explore both the theory and practice of film digitization. The session combines illustrated slides, diagrams, and real-time demonstrations using Adobe Lightroom and Negative Lab Pro.

Learning objectives

  • Learn the essential technical concepts for successful film digitization.

  • Learn how to make high-quality digital captures of film negatives.

  • Learn highly effective post-capture processing techniques for converting and editing digitized images.

Kursleiter‍ ‍

Mark Segal

Mark Segal has been making photographs for over seven decades. He adopted a digital workflow in 1999—first by scanning film—and moved fully digital by 2004. Over the years, he has worked extensively with a wide range of software, equipment, and techniques, and has built a strong reputation as an author, educator, and technical reviewer. A frequent contributor to Luminous Landscape, Mark has written more than 85 articles focused on professional printers, fine art papers, and film digitization workflows. He is also the author of the ebook Scanning Workflows with SilverFast 8, SilverFast HDR, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. Mark recently exhibited black-and-white prints from digitized medium-format negatives at Galerie Sechs in Basel and led archival pigment printing workshops for FRAMES in Lucerne. Under his imprint Imaging91, he published Paint the City Black, a collection of mural art photography commemorating the George Floyd tragedy.

Tickets: Zum Kurs-Shop

Datum: 07.02.2026 15:00 - Mark Segal

As traditional film scanners become less common, the use of digital cameras to digitize film has grown rapidly. At the same time, film photography itself is experiencing a remarkable revival — with many photographers digitizing their negatives for preservation, printing, and presentation.

This workshop is designed for anyone interested in mastering modern techniques for digitizing film and post-processing digital images of colour and black-and-white negatives. Over the course of roughly 90 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of discussion, we’ll explore both the theory and practice of film digitization. The session combines illustrated slides, diagrams, and real-time demonstrations using Adobe Lightroom and Negative Lab Pro.

Learning objectives

  • Learn the essential technical concepts for successful film digitization.

  • Learn how to make high-quality digital captures of film negatives.

  • Learn highly effective post-capture processing techniques for converting and editing digitized images.

Kursleiter‍ ‍

Mark Segal

Mark Segal has been making photographs for over seven decades. He adopted a digital workflow in 1999—first by scanning film—and moved fully digital by 2004. Over the years, he has worked extensively with a wide range of software, equipment, and techniques, and has built a strong reputation as an author, educator, and technical reviewer. A frequent contributor to Luminous Landscape, Mark has written more than 85 articles focused on professional printers, fine art papers, and film digitization workflows. He is also the author of the ebook Scanning Workflows with SilverFast 8, SilverFast HDR, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. Mark recently exhibited black-and-white prints from digitized medium-format negatives at Galerie Sechs in Basel and led archival pigment printing workshops for FRAMES in Lucerne. Under his imprint Imaging91, he published Paint the City Black, a collection of mural art photography commemorating the George Floyd tragedy.

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