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

Hi darrell,

Thanks a lot for your helpful reply. In the meantime, I copied a CF card
to a
Maxell blank CD-R, and was then able to print from the CD-R with no
problem.I've
been using both data and music Maxell CD-R blanks for several years, with
no
problems to date.

Mort

Darrell wrote:

> "mort" <mort@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:41CA1241.EA32AAB1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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.