Ken & Shel, I have 3 or 400 scanned slides on Kodak CD's. This is the first batch to turn out so poorly. I'm looking for somewhere else to take my business.
I would think about doing it myself, but like I said before, I don't need any more time sitting in front of the computer screen. Regards, Bob S. On 5/31/05, Kenneth Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >A friend showed me several discs of Photo CD scans and I was not impressed > at all. > > I suspect, Photo CD's are like any other photographic process done > commercially - If you find a good processor, that takes the time and wants to > do a good job, stick with them. > I never received Photo CD scans that were bad enough to warrant rescanning, > but if I had I would have gone back to the processor and demanded a rescan. > By accepting poor quality scans (like anything else), you're just supporting > poor quality. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: PESO: Flowers - don't look if offended > > A friend showed me several discs of Photo CD scans and I was not impressed > at all. If you've got a lot of slides or film to scan, you'd be ahead of > the game economically to get a good film scanner, and with a little > practice and reading of some on-line tutorials, you'll be getting better > results in short order. > > I don't recall now, but can you get a 16-bit TIFF file from a Photo CD? > > Shel > > "When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the > people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and > tears, you will know you are on the right track." - Arthur Fellig > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Kenneth Waller > > > I was told by a local processor, several years ago, that Kodak had > stopped supporting the scanning equipment needed to produce the Photo CD. > Local processor was keeping it going on their own. Last time I checked, > several years ago now, they were still offering Photo CD's. > > > > BTW, I have around 1000 images done by local processor on Photo CD and I > could always improve the resulting scans somewhat by resetting white > point/black point even tho the original slide exposures were spot on. > > I was paying between $1.25 to $1.75 each scan. > > > > Kenneth Waller > > > > > ________________________________________ > PeoplePC Online > A better way to Internet > http://www.peoplepc.com > >
