Glen Tortorella wrote: > prints. Thus, I ask the supremely elementary question: how does one > turn the zeros and ones stored in the DSLR's memory into prints?
Several options: 1) A laser or inkjet printer that you own and you do your own printing. Doesn't necessarily require additional software beyond what comes with your operating system, but could benefit in some cases. Like Windows. 1a) "Dedicated" inkjet printers for the home. Plug in your memory card, use the menus on the printer to tell it how many of which ones, load paper, wait for prints to come out. 2) Take your memory card to Walmart or local photo shop or one of the other seventy bazillion places that have a "digital printing kiosk". Plug in the memory card, tell it how many of which photos, and shortly they pop out. 3) Any of a variety of Internet photo printing services (Google is your friend ... I can't remember the names of any of them at the moment). Upload your photo file to their web site, give them money and a mailing address, wait for the mailman. Cheapest would be (2) or (3). Most control with best chance of a "best possible" print would be (1). > Would a computer and/or scanner be necessary (I do not have a > scanner, but I do have an iMac), or can a camera shop or photo lab > supply the means to do this if one does not have a scanner? Options (1a) and (2) don't require you have a computer but (1) and (3) do. (3) also requires a high-speed Internet connection; you'll go crazy waiting for your photos to upload over a dial-up line. Scanner is unnecessary in all scenarios, unless you have film you want to digitize. That's a whole 'nother discussion, though. Your iMac should be fine, I'd think, though I know virtually nothing about any of the Macs. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
