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RE: [OM] advice: print or slide, ultimately to go on PhotoCD

Subject: RE: [OM] advice: print or slide, ultimately to go on PhotoCD
From: "Michael Stephens" <mike1964@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 13:54:10 -0500
I've been having my negatives scanned for about a year now, and have
been pretty pleased overall.  Sure if you add up the cost, you could
justify buying a scanner, but the time savings by having someone else
do it is tremendous.  

Regarding PhotoCD - is this the really hi-res scan (like 12mb+ per 
photo)? My CDs have been Photodiscs or I've also had Photoworks do it,
both at a cost as little as $5 or as high as $9.  Scans on these are 
about 4.5mb per picture, which is fine for my purposes.  I've heard 
that PhotoCDs cost upwards of $25 per roll of film, and the image 
files are huge. (Maybe this was medium format, and not 35mm?)

Mike

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Subject: Re: [OM] advice: print or slide, ultimately to go on PhotoCD


Sean said:
>>>More specifically to digital photography, why not look at getting a
film scanner?? I had the impression PhotoCD is a dying standard.<<<

Dying standard? Since when? To my (admittedly mediocre) knowledge, it's
been around since 92 and seems to have been well established.

I don't want to get a film scanner because it's $$$, then there's the
learning curve to get good results.

/Acer V
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