Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/17

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Subject: [Leica] Question for Walgreen Photo Users
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 16:44:17 -0500
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Thanks, Ken.  I just passed my film scanner on to my youngest son, so that 
he could digitize his early film photos.  I don't really want to get back 
into that.  I just wanted the best deal for an occasional roll of film.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Carney" <kcarney1 at cox.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Question for Walgreen Photo Users


> On 7/17/2011 3:14 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>> Since our local Fuji film lab closed, and Wal-Mart quit doing 1-hour 
>> processing, Walgreen seems to be the best local option for me.  In my 
>> one-time experience with them, a year or so ago, I was not impressed with 
>> the resolution of the CD that they provided.
>>
>> Does Walgreen offer a high-resolution CD as an option?  Their online site 
>> hints at a resolution of about 1.6MB per image.  I seem to recall that 
>> the images that I got from a Wal-Mart CD were quite a bit larger.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>
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> Hi, Jim
>
> That is a tiny file.  For about $280 or so you can get a Plustek scanner 
> at B&H.  Scan just the images you want, 16-bit instead of 8, tif instead 
> of jpg, crop the way you want and so on.  Given the quality of your images 
> this is one operation I would not want to farm out.
>
> Ken
>
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In reply to: Message from jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] Question for Walgreen Photo Users)
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