Re: [Leica] Obtaining Color Prints

["Bud Cook" <budcook@ibm.net>]

Thanks Doug.  It looks like I should start with something like PhotoCD and
then go from there.  That way I haven't sunk a lot of money into digital
until I know I'll be happy with it.

Bud

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Herr <Telyt@compuserve.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Obtaining Color Prints


> 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
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