P3D Re: CD's vs. Floppies

[michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Kersenbrock)]

> Whoops, Dan, forget what I said earlier by E-mail about taking everyone's
> advise and having my film put on Kodak "CD" Disks instead of floppies.
> 
> Last trip it cost $12.10 to have 24 exposures put on a floppy.  When I
> went back this afternoon with another roll I was told 24 exposures on a
> CD would take 14-days and cost $21.40 plus tax. !!!  May as well say a
> dollar a shot.  And please, no one pop up and say I can get a discount
> with 36-exposure rolls -- who's gives a hoot!
> 
> Anyway, at a dollar a shot it seems a person could buy something, let's
> say, like the Olympus D-600L SLR Digital camera with 3X zoom,  1280 x
> 1024 pixels, and all the other goodies, plus a HP Rewritable CD drive,
> plus a slide-bar, plus you-name-it, and put their images (read anaglyphs)
> on CD's themselves -- and come out even after 1,500 snaps.  

Are you recommending the half-price floppy method (that comes 
with 3% of the pixels the CDROM comes with) or are you 
recommending to forget Kodak (and other) digitization all together?

> As a footnote: Since CDRW drives have become affordable we're seeing 
> more and more ads on the web from persons selling anaglyphs on disk. . .
> and, No, they're not "all" adult sites -- most of those require shutter
> glasses and I don't have a pair.

I just got a CDRW drive a week or two ago.  Definitely neat -- and
the little wheels, cogs, and sprockly sprockets in my head are 
twirling around thinking about what I could produce in addition to
the boring things I bought it for.  :-)

Mike K.


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