ASIA GRACE by Kevin Kelly | Production Notes: "I investigated several different options to have the slides and negatives scanned. The official way to make an art book is to have each image drum-scanned at a cost of $20-40 a piece, and then to have them color corrected by a pro for additional fees. It would not be unheard of to spend $20,000 for scanning the amount of images in this book. Therefore I looked into home scanners by Nikon and Polaroid. These could have done a pretty good job, but the prospect of spending weeks scanning 600 shots didn't appeal to me. In the end I went with a consumer scan called the Kodak Photo CD. For about $1.20 a piece, I had my slides and negs scanned at a local service bureau specializing in digital scanning. They were returned digitized on a CD. The resolution of these scans are right at the edge of what is needed for a book this size. (For those who care, the typical file size for an image in this book is 20 megabytes.)"