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Subject: [OM] Re: Kodak PictureCD enhancement?
From: Jim Sharp <jsharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 01:31:10 -0500
You may be in a test market or maybe they've not upgraded the lab in my 
area. I just got a PhotoCD made from a roll last week and the scans were 
still 1536 X 1024. The quality might be slightly better than it was a 
year ago but it's still dismal around here...

--
Jim


Curtis P. Hedman wrote:

> I may be stoned for admitting it, but I often have a Kodak PictureCD made 
> when I have a roll of film processed, to have a convenient set of digital 
> images if I don't feel like firing up my film scanner...
> 
> Anyway, I just noticed that Kodak seems to have done a "Stealth upgrade" of 
> the product... as initially introduced, the images were scanned at 1536 x 
> 1024 pixels, or about 1.5 megapixels; a recently processed roll resulted in 
> 2100 x 1400 pixel images, or about 2.8 megapixels... a decent improvement! 
> Has anyone else noticed this? I'm surprised that Kodak has not publicized 
> this enhancement... unless I live in a test market of some sort! For what 
> its worth, APS film is scanned at 2100 x 1200 pixels. Since the APS frame 
> is only 30mm vs the 36mm of 35mm film, it would appear that the PictureCD 
> scanner is not set to a fixed pixel per inch resolution - another curios 
> feature...
> 
> A puzzle to be sure - anyone have any light to shine on the subject?
> 
> Curt
> 
> P.S. Anyone know of a service that will do whole roll scanning of 
> transparency film at a price anywhere near what the PictureCDs now cost 
> ($3.99 above the cost of processing and 1 set of prints at my local Target 
> store)?
> 
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