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- From: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.photo,rec.arts.books
- Subject: Re: Photo CD .... anyone have the specs? Resolution, etc.?
- Message-ID: <30087@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:56:46 GMT
- References: <1993Jan13.183341.17207@ns.network.com> <22JAN199311234835@elroy.uh.edu>
- Reply-To: curt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Curt Welch)
- Followup-To: rec.video
- Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD
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- In rec.video, st1r8@elroy.uh.edu (Guillot, Burt J.) writes:
- >Here's some questions I'd like to have answered about the Photo CD...
- >
- >How many pictures can be put on a single CD?
-
- 100 I think (it's close to that if not exactly that.) You can put
- four 24 print rolls on one CD.
-
- >What does it cost to get x number of pictures "developed" and how
- >long does it take to process it? Can you take them to your local
- >drug store or do you have the mail the film in yourself?
-
- I asked at a local Ritz camara store. They send them out to a Lab
- and it takes about 2 weeks they said. I think they said the price
- was about $18 for a roll of 24 prints. And if you do 4 rolls at
- once you save a few bucks on each roll.
-
- I don't know if you get prints from this at the same time or if you
- just get the Photo-CD.
-
- >From the television commercials, they always show the Photos on the
- >television set ... so, the pictures are stored with MUCH more
- >resolution than that of a standard television set?
-
- The pictures are stored with much more resolution than is needed for
- the NTSC video signal. They are stored with a resolution high enough
- to get high quality prints made from the Photo-CD (which they will
- do for you.) One review I read said that the prints he had made from
- the Photo-CD came out better than the ones made from the original negative.
-
- I don't think that even HDTV will be able to show you the full picture
- at it's max resolution.
-
- Photo-CD wasn't designed to be a way to show your pictures on TV. It was
- desiged to be a general digital storage format for 35mm pictures. And
- the Photo-CD standard is designed to support multiple storage formats. I
- think there are something like 4 different formats already defined. As
- I recall, there's a low resolution format for catalog use, the standard
- consumer 35mm format, a pro format that has about twice the number of
- pixels in both the X and Y, and a hi res medical format for things like
- X-rays.
-
- I wonder how long it will be before they come out with a do it yourself
- print maker that makes prints from your Photo-CD? Some type of kiosk
- that you just drop money into. That would be neat. Especially if it
- gave you lots of control to frame, edit, adjust colors and exposure,
- etc, before you printed it. Maybe even add titles, borders, or combine
- multiple picutres together.
-
- And if they supported something like the Sony MD format disk, you could
- save your edited picture when you were done so you could get more prints
- later. A MD could hold about 20 pictures, and it would take about 70 seconds
- to write one picture to the disk. That would be neat!
-
- Curt Welch
-