Re: Photographing irises
Edmund L. Castillo wrote:
>
> I recently received an advertisement with two rolls of film, one each ASA
> 200 and 400, from the Seattle Film Works, P.O. Box 34056, Seattle
> 98124-1056. This is one of those mail order photo services which charges
> about the same as the corner drug store for processing but gives you a new
> roll of film free. What interested me about their service was that for
> something like $3.95 a roll they will put your photos on a compact disk so
> that you can view them on your computer. The next logical step, of course,
> if you have a color printer, is to print them on letter-size paper. For
> those who keep photo albums of their iris blossoms, this would be less work
> than mounting photo prints and cheaper than making photo enlargements.
> Disadvantage, of course...where you normally get four or six prints on a
> page, this way you would get only one. Offset, however, is that the pages
> would be thinner and would not require plastic jackets.
I got one of those advertisements as well. Did you notice that the free rolls were
only 20 exposures? As to the CD and color printers, I haven't seen a printer yet
that comes close to the quality of a picture, and the quality of storage over time
is unknown. They also didn't mention the resolution they use to scan the pictures.
To my way of thinking it is still too new a technology to rely on. I would at
least opt for both prints and CDs.
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