I use the Kodak Picture Maker at my local one hour store. It has an extra attachment to scan slides and negatives at ridiculous resolution. I've printed many 8x10 from slides (the largest available) prints on that amazing printer and have been totally blown away by its quality.
I think the reason so called pros and serious amateurs ignore these machines is that they seem to be marketed at the P&S crowd. If only it could print larger...... Christian Skofteland ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tonghang Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I looked over a lady at a local Walgreen drug store, printing > some 8x10 photos on a self operated Kodak photo scan/print > machine, you know, one of those vertical yellow machines > with a touch screen on top. These machines are in > Walmart as well. > > The print quality from the print scan was surprisingly good, > and you can adjust the level of brightness and do cropping > as needed. > > The machine has ports to read floppy disk, cdrom or a digital > camera memory stick, as well as scanning prints directly. > > Wouldn't be wonderful if the machine could scan negative > and slides as well? Imagine you shoot a roll of chrome, > study them under your brilliant loupe (which would the > Pentax 5X), pick the best one and walk to your friendly > local drug store any time of the day, scan and print 8x10, > for merely 3 bucks? > > No need to buy $500 film scanner yourself, print only > the ones you like, and no need to buy a $1000 digital > camera which becomes obsolete fasters than computers. > > Wouldn't that be great for everyone? > > I'm sure Kodak could make a lot of money, AND make film > photography last a long time. > > Tonghang. > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
