On 2/14/2015 4:10 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
John wrote:
If I remember correctly from my days running the mini-lab, the Kodak CD
that was available with your processed film & prints the images were
standard, low-compression JPEGs that would allow you to print a 4x6 at
300ppi (1200x1800 pixels).
You're thinking of the Kodak "Picture CD" that came several years
later. The original Kodak "Photo CD" (notice the subtly different
name) came out in the early 1990's and stored up to 100 photos, each
one in several resolutions. It was a proprietary image format and
failed in the same way that pretty much every proprietary image format
has ever since. When they went to the ""Picture CD" it was just
standard JPEG images at 1200 x 1800.
I'm pretty sure Photoshop will still read the old Photo CD format
images.
Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember that version of the Kodak
PhotoCD.
I had several rolls of film I mailed home to my Mom for processing & I
think she got the CD along with the prints & negatives. She sent the
prints & negatives back to me & kept the CDs.
The only reason I remember them is because every time you put the CD in
the drive it would install a new instance of the Kodak viewing software
to open the CD instead of just using the the program it had installed
the first time you looked at the images on the CD.
I remember having to go work on my mom's computer because it stopped
working and because there was no room left on the hard-drive from all
the instances of Kodak's viewing software filling it up.
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