> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:09:44 -0500
> From: Chip Stratton <cstrat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> The Kodak Picture CDs in my experience have been good scans with good
color
> balance, but they aren't really high resolution - 1536x1024 pixels - good
> enough for 5x7 prints but showing their limits above that.
> Also, I don't think Kodak will do it for slides, only negatives when
> developed. Other processors may have their own offerings.
Hi,
They do slides, but the results in my case have been very disappointing.
I think it is at least as dependent on the operator skill, as printing.
Recently I had Picture CDs made from my slides at my local photo lab (about
average, definitely not a pro lab) and was very disappointed with the
results. They forgot to scan some of the slides, several were upside-down,
they were all way too dark and most were unsharp. Many showed visible JPEG
compression artifacts, even at 6x4. I scanned the same slides on a Polaroid
SprintScan LE and the results were much better. It is also interesting to
note, that your pictures take only about 40 MB on their disk, the rest is
their (mostly useless) software, and the whole "full" disk is only 350 MB or
so. So the 100 pics per CD limit is completely artificial. The results I got
from PictureCD were comparable to what I got from a flatbed scanner with
transparency adaptor, my scans from a real slide scanner were way better.
Still the results printed on an old Epson Photo700 from scanned slides beat
anything I got in the way of prints from regular labs.
Regards
Pawel
--
Pawel Golik, Ph.D.
Center for Molecular Medicine, Emory University
1462 Clifton Road, suite 405
Atlanta GA 30322
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