Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >