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.
Be aware that a roll of film takes up about a third of a photoCD,
which has something like 30 times the storage of a floppy. The
image on the floppy can be usable, but it will have much less detail
than the original.
> The next logical step, of course,
> if you have a color printer, is to print them on letter-size paper.
Color inkjets are improving at a phenomenal rate. I bought one about a
year
and a half ago, and I'm thinking about upgrading already. Still not
photo
quality yet, though. (Actually, I am really lusting for a 1200 dpi
Lexmark
b&w laser printer, but I can't quite justify it yet.)
