Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bud Cook wrote: >>> Do you have any knowledge of how a quite good scanner attached to a PC would compare with having Kodak do the scan? <<< Nope. It's not Kodak doing the scan, it's a custom lab using the Kodak PhotoCD format (and maybe some Kodak proprietary equipment?). Caution: don't confuse PhotoCD with the consumer-grade PictureCD that Kodak is now promoting. I've had some scans I have not been satisfied with; most of these I shouldn't have ordered a scan for anyway, for example no highlight detail in the chrome, or various bird parts merging with the background. To date, only 1 scan has been poor quality, and the lab re-scanned it at no charge. I figured that the quaility of scanner used to make the PhotoCD was better than I could afford, and it's their scanner depreciating at a horrendous rate, not mine. The lab's depreciation is spread over thousands of scans, while mine (if I were to buy one) would have to be covered by a few hundred scans at most. Besides, not having a scanner means one less thing to keep working, and less software to crash my system. Doug Herr Sacramento http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt