10/19 Have you ever purchased a photo cd when developing your pictures?
What format, resolution, and size are the images?
\_ A related question. What's the difference between Photo CD and
Picture CD? Thx.
\_ PhotoCD is the professional one, very expensive, maybe around $35
per roll. They give you various resolutions for each picture, I've
heard the max is around 3000x1500 or something.
PictureCD is what you see when you go to Costco, Walmart, etc. It
is relatively cheap, developing plus CD is around $8-10. The
resolution is something like 1536x1024. The good thing is it looks
identical to your print, which is hard to get if you scan the
negative directly, the bad thing is the resolution sucks, even
compare to cheap digital cameras. If you shoot film, it's a nice
and fast way to get a 'catalog' of pictures to your computer. If
cost is not too big of an issue, I'd recommend you try it.
I do not recommend PhotoCD. If you want to go that route, maybe you
should've picked up the Digital Rebel for $500 from OneCall when
they have one of those deals.
\_ I wished Kodak had provided a higher resolution PictureCD service,
because to them the cost os nothing, the developing of film is in
the digital domain anyway now a days. If I can get 3000x1500
PictureCDs from my 35mm film for $10, then I might not have
jumped on the digital SLR bandwagen so fast. They only have
themselves to blame for the inevitible.
\_ You are forgetting the cost to create the CD...it takes
machine time. At least in the early days, this wasn't
cheap.
\_ How much could a machine with a 1x CD-writer cost in the
'olden-days'? $10K? Depreciate that over the use it would
get in 2-3 years. If they burn only 4 discs per day in
250 business days, that still comes to about $3/disc for
usage of the machine, and for later machines, well we all
know what hapened to CD-R prices and speeds. |
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