Re: [Leica] OFF TOPIC - Digital

["David Medley" <dmedley@whidbey.net>]

Richard,

From what I have been able to put together, the best  bang for
the buck is still having your slides/negs scanned and put onto a
Kodak photo CD.
In the Northwest we have a company called Lazer-Quick that will
scan them for about $.79 each and you can get about 100 images
on a disk with 4 different resolutions of each image.

I have a friend that has had them scan 1000's at that price and
never had a problem with the originals coming back in less than
perfect condition.
As an aside, I noticed in a recent Ritz Camera ad in one of the
national photo mags ( Peterson's Photographic?) a listing for
the Kodak portable photo CD player with all of the goodies at a
close-out price of $79. That is a very good price as Kodak
originally wanted close to $300 for that package before they got
out that market. The # is N2000 and it works great. You can play
regular music CD's as well as show the images of your photo CD's
on a regular TV set. It comes with a remote and you can take it
to Aunt Martha's, plug it into her TV and have a slide show
without all of the hassle of setting up the projector etc. The
images that are scanned onto the CD can be manipulated with any
of the photo re-touching programs and printed out in the usual
ways.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
David Medley
Whidbey Is.   WA
USA
dmedley@whidbey.net

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> From: Richard W. Hemingway <n5xrd@juno.com>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] OFF TOPIC - Digital
> Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 2:09 PM
> 
> LUGs,
> 
> As usual, I am several months behind some of the
convservations we have
> on the lug. I have a basic digital question (s).  I have a lot
of slides
> and have been thinking about the probability of scanning these
for the
> kids so that they could see them on their computer or TV
screens. 
> Whether it would be practical for me involves the following:
> 
> 	(1) How much resolution would be necessary if they were
viewed on
> a 	24"-32" TV screen - and have as good a picture as  normally
> seen??
> 
> 	(2) In JPEG how big a file would this be??
> 
> 	(Thinking of recording on CD-R or optical disks)
> 
> Please respond (if anyone is interested) to me by private
e-mail:
> n5xrd@juno.com
> 
> Thanks, now back to Leica.
> 
> Dick Hemingway
> Norman, OK
> 
>
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