I've been using Kodak Photo CD service to digitize my slides over the last 3+ years and have been very happy with the results. Costs me locally about $1.50 to $2.00 US per image scan depending on the number of slides scanned. The CD has 5 resolutions per image, from 192X128 up to 3072X2048. I usually get over 100 scans per CD. these scans sometime require minor lightpoint and darkpoint adjustment and some minor color adjustment, which only take a minute or two along the way to sizing and printing or posting. I have only printed up to 8"X10", but once I fire up my Epson 2000P we'll see how big these images can be and still be acceptable. There appears to be confusion about the different CD scanning services out there. From what I can tell, the Kodak picture CD service is limited to web postings or smallish prints. Kodak also offers a Photo CD Pro whicch allows scans up to 70mb, but cost over $20 per scan. I believe that with the Kodak Photo CD service, like other mass marketed processes, it will only be as good as the people doing the scanning. Ken Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 12:07 PM Subject: Re: Photo CDs
> Rich wrote: > << I tried getting a roll of film developed straight to a CD for the first time yesterday. I forget the brand name, but it wasn't a Kodak PhotoCD. The files on the CD were .jpg images, approximately 1480x1035, 24-bit color. I was a bit disappointed because that resolution doesn't allow for much zooming and cropping before you run into blatant pixellation. Is this the same for all photo CDs, or could I do better going with another lab? >> > > First time I did that they were truely cheap and cheerful .jpg's of maybe 256K each onto a floppy. The second time it was closer to your experience. The images were still unsatisfactory. > > Lately I have tried more Kodak CD's. The first batch I tried worked out OK with images of 2000x3000 pixels available on the CD. Later I sent about 80 negatives and slides for scanning thru the local service. The results were OK again, but I did note some variation in quality of the final product. I thought some of the slides weren't scanned as well as before and I was surprised by some of the negatives...very good while others were just OK. > > I paid about $1.50 each to put the 80 images up. That's cheaper than the $600 I'd need for a good scanner and it didn't take any of my time, but I want better results! > > Regards, Bob S. > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
