Re: [photo-3d] Pro photo CDs

["Dan Shelley" <dshelley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Make sure you distinguish the difference between the PhotoCD and the
>PictureCD!  <deleted> Apparently this is a "Picture CD" and is
>different from the "Photo CD" which offers 5 different resolutions (at
>least that's what I'm guessing at this point!).  My Picture CD has .jpg
>files of all my Loreo prints, the largest of which is ~650kb.  Hardly a
>high density .tif file.

The professional one is a multi-session disc (able to be written to/added to
many times) which holds one hundred images (I think) in five file (.TIF)
sizes. The largest of these is a bit over 18 MB.

>Also, I think $72.00 (36 exposures * $2.00/exposure) is a bit steep, at
>least for my pocketbook.  It is cheaper to have your images added to a
>CD at the time of developing instead of later.  However, you then need
>to decide if it's more cost effective to get all of them (good and bad)
>on a CD or preview the prints and have the "good ones" added later at a
>higher cost per neg.

I think it's far wiser to have your images printed, choose the two or three
that are "worth something" and have them added to your CD.

>My personal preference at this point is to use my scanner for any prints
>or transparencies, manipulate the image as I see fit, save the results
>and eventually (when I get enough files) write them to CD-R or CD-RW.  I
>could then add some sort of viewer to the CD as well and produce "photo
>album CDs" for friends and family.

That is fair, and well worth doing. However, the original post I replied to
was specifically about printing stereocards, and for that, the Pro Photo CD
route is the only way to go IMHO.

Dan



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