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

Hi Ron,

I tried replying directly to your URL, and it bounced back due to an
endless
loop at Kodak. Anyhow, I used Kodak film from the 1939-40 N.Y.World's Fair
on,
and still have many great Kodachrome slides from my 6 year residence in
Europe.
Two things finally rang the curtain on APS for me. First, the ID # and
frame #
and date on the print back were either smudged or absent, requiring me to
spend
hours doing them by hand. Then Kodak shut their NJ and CT labs, so that 2
day
turnaround time became 5-6 day.
Anyhow, thanks again for your nice reply.
Morton

Ron Baird wrote:

> Greetings Mort,
>
> Sounds like you have a great camera there, digital is amazing.
>
> Sorry to learn that you did not get good service from your printing
efforts,
> however, did you ever try a different processor?  Might make a
difference if
> you  use your camera in the future.
>
> Good luck with digital, you are going to enjoy it.  By the way, the
Kodak
> EasyShare software that is included with Kodak cameras includes directly
> links to processors to make it easy to print on your home printer, or
via
> their digital services which are really pretty good.  You may want to
> experiment with them some time. Also, once you upload your images to
Ofoto,
> you can store them online and share them with others etc. if you like. 
They
> will also make lots of variations on your images including making a CD.
>
> You should be able to burn a CD of your digital images in JPG or any
other
> format.  The key to reading image files is in the software you use, not
so
> much the CDBurner.
>
> Talk to you soon, Mort,
>
> Happy Holidays
> Ron Baird
> Eastman Kodak Company
>
> "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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Morton
> >