Re: Goodbye to APS, and Question About CD-Rs.

"mort" <mort@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> After 8 years of using my Elph and Elph 2 cameras, I have finally
> suc***bed to the siren song of digital, inspired by Kodak's worsening
> processing of APS and their taking longer and longer to deliver the
> prints and reprints, all with the data on the back smeared and
> illegible.
>
APS, the let's reinvent the wheel. Kodak last attempt was "Disc Film" in
the
early 1980's. Kodak has NEVER got it right, IMHO they surprise me they
haven't gone bankrupt. They are a history of.. well stupidity! Let's see a
few highlights;

Disk Film
Instant Film & Cameras, (aka Polaroid sued them BIG TIME!)
APS

They never seem to be able to foresee their direction.

> I bought a 5MP Canon S500 Digital Elph. The pictures are sharper than
> the APS, I can print them on my home printer whenever I want to, and
> even the 8.5 x 11 " prints are sharp, with good color.  Kodak seems to
> be in a downward spiral of  withdrawing from conventional film, while
> not making great strides in the digital world.
>
Recently Kodak did buy the Imaging sensor division of National
Semi-Conductor. But they should have done that in 1995!

> I'm planning to download images from my camera's CF cards to my PC, and
> then burning them to CD-R as data. Will this work, considering that my
> camera does only JPEG? Will I then be able to make prints from the CD-R?
> CD-R storage seems to be safer, and infinitely cheaper, than storage on
> CF cards.Thanks.
>
Depends on the CD-R media, some is crap and will de-laminate. One of the
better CD-R is Delkin's
http://www.delkin.com/delkin_news_press_release.php?id=37

Just make sure you update as technology advances, I do have an 8" floppy
disk above my computer as a reminder of this.