On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 15:36:28 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any thoughts on the PhotoCD or this scanner (or anything in the > same price range, $100-$150US) would be appreciated.
A big reason I don't do PhotoCDs is that I don't want to pay to have images scanned that aren't "up to snuff". My average "keeper" rate is one or two frames per roll, at most. I don't want to pay to have the other ten, twenty, or thirty frames scanned. My preference is to preview scan them myself (flatbed from prints now, direct from negatives soon). Then I do full resolution scans of the interesting or "keeper" shots and ignore the rest. When I get enough full resolution scans to fill a CD, I move them from hard drive to CD to conserve hard drive space. Then, I'll use the full resolution scans saved to CD as the starting point for creating images for any use. Sometimes, I'll create a set of post-processed images all of a topic and make a CD of them. For example, I have a CD with a self-running slide show of all my Petit le Mans photos from all four years at PUG resolution (600 pixels on the longest edge). I'm getting ready to create a CD with the ready-for-printing versions of a bunch of my images, too. TTYL, DougF NB. IrfanView is cool for creating self-running slide shows you can freely distribute. Search for it on www.download.com or any of the other freeware/shareware sites. - 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 .
