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

Is there any difference between data or music CD-rs? I don't think there
is.

"mort" <mort@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:41CA2889.D5F46318@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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
>> > succumbed 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.
>