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

I wouldn't use the cheapie spindled no-nmae CD-R for anything but tem****ary
use. I would archive on the Delkin Gold CD-R's. I have a few de-laminated
CD's from about 1998, and several that look ok but can't be read.


"Rudy Benner" <bennerREMOVE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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
> >> > 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.
> >
>
>