On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 15:40:20 -0800, Bruce Dayton wrote: > [...] If you took the time to scan and touch up 36-72 images and > then print them all, you might be surprised just how time > intensive it is. Not to mention the person who has just come back > from vacation with 10 rolls.
Or me, who just came back from four days at the track with 30 or 40 (or more) rolls. That's why I pay the extra 7 bucks a roll to get the CD. I was spending more time and money doing my own contact sheets and scans than the rest of the process combined. Now I use the CD images for contact sheets, and only scan the few shots that are worth it. It still takes more time than getting 6" x 4" prints at the photo lab. But it's cheaper since I don't print every shot. Also, I can go bigger any time I want for about $2 (materials) per 8" x 10", where the lab wants $12 for an 8" x 10". On top of that, I can do it all from my desk with a beer in hand. :-) For the first time in 25 years of ditzing about with cameras, I finally have some of my own shots hanging in my home. Of course, I'm a computer geek, so all I had to add to my capital equipment was the printer and scanner; I already had a high-end computer with CD-R drive and a ton of memory. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
