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Topic: A good digital photo camera?
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William Hooper
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 12-30-2005 01:21 AM
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Retail outlets like WalMart and Target rarely offer professional photo lab services. Most cities have professional photo labs that can make large high quality prints from film or digital images. Today, the film original is usually scanned to make the large print:
Target (& Walgreen's) send enlargements off to a regional Kodak lab for enlargements - around here it's one somewhere in TX. I looked into the Kodak Gallery after the Target photo counter guy lost several rolls of film that were supposed to go to the Kodak lab but never made it. Just gone, like a vapor, never received by the Kodak lab, which can track orders by the numbers on the little stubs of the envelopes ya put yer film in to drop off to go to the Kodak lab.
Independent photo labs are disappearing. Many were part of camera stores, & the last real camera store w/photo lab in Mobile closed last month. Standalone photo labs disappeared even faster with the combination of the proliferation of consumer digital cameras & services offered at drugstore/superstore/Ritz etc. The one remaining place I could take film for push processing decided it wasn't worth patching up & re-opening a couple of storms ago. Of course, none of the other places know what you're talking about when you want a roll pushed, not that they could do it anyway with their equipment & employee training.
That leaves Ritz, which is Fuji, & I prefer Kodak paper & processing (except for the few rolls I shoot of Fuji 1600 I shoot for insurance). Ritz doesn't really qualify as a 'photo lab' any more than Target, Walgreens, or Wal-Mart, since they send off to another lab anything other than 1-hour & 15-ishx15-ish CD scans.
This is pretty much the case across the coast. The only other thing I've considered is some folks like wedding photography studios, etc., who (at least a few years ago) did their own processing & printing. It really doesn't seem like a workable, everyday solution, though, because these would have to be worked in when possible, & likely not to generate interest in small, piddly, never-ending streams of additional work for a person running a studio.
The thing that galls me about the Kodak Gallery is not so much that the services available for film are inferior to the services for uploads from digital cameras, but the fact that, to the Kodak Gallery, film *is* inferior to digital because it's lower resolution. To the Kodak Gallery, digital photos are 4 mp, 5 mp, 9 mp, etc.; but all film is 1536x1024.
quote: John Pytlak
Kodak High Resolution Sensors
Well then why, for the love of all that just might possibly accidentally make sense, don't they have them in the film scanners at the Kodak Gallery?
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Scott Jentsch
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1061
From: New Berlin, WI, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 01-06-2006 04:02 PM
quote: Greg Anderson
My biggest question has to do with resizing photos. I have some old software which can do a good job of color correction and some effects and stuff but it does a horrible job of resizing (shrinking) pictures so that I can post them to web sites or email them or whatever. Is Photoshop Elements good at that? Are all new programs good at that?
If all you're looking to do is resize images, then check out a free program called IrfanView:
http://www.irfanview.com/
It does a very good job at batch processing, and while there are a few things I wish it did (like renaming files to be compatible with certain OS's), it's very good at what it does.
I especially like it for the fact that it retains the EXIF and IPTC data, if you tell it to. I do this specifically to retain the copyright and description data that is contained in movie stills that I receive from studios. ImageReady (contained within Photoshop) actions (if I recall correctly) would not retain that data.
As far as image cataloging goes, I really like Photoshop Album 2.0. The image correction functions leave a little to be desired, but the program is getting old, and Photoshop Elements 4.0 has replaced it and probably does a much better job at doing color correction, red-eye removal, etc. Exporting 4 megapixel photos at a lower resolution is so easy that you would never go back to the old way of doing things.
For anyone with a digital camera, a program like Photoshop Album / Elements is a must-have. Photoshop Album 3.0 is a freebie that's worth trying to see what features it has.
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John Pytlak
Film God
Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 08-28-2006 10:37 AM
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Kodak Ranked Highest in J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Digital Camera Satisfaction Study for 3rd Straight Year
KODAK EASYSHARE ranked highest brand in the $200-$399 range; price segment represents nearly 50 percent of the U.S. digital camera market *
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Aug. 25, 2006 -- For the third consecutive year, KODAK EASYSHARE digital cameras in the $200-$399 price range have ranked highest in customer satisfaction in the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Digital Camera Satisfaction StudySM. Since the J.D. Power and Associates Digital Camera Study was introduced in 2004, Kodak is the only brand to rank highest in a single category for three straight years.
“We’re very pleased with this ranking, since it’s based on customer experience and further solidifies our reputation for quality and ease of use,” said Phil Faraci, president, Consumer Digital Imaging Group, and a Kodak senior vice president. “Kodak invented the digital camera in 1975 and we have been a leading digital innovator ever since. Our innovation has always focused on providing products and services that create a great user experience, and this ranking confirms that we continue to deliver on that promise.”
The J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Digital Camera Satisfaction StudySM evaluates customer satisfaction within a price segment of consumer digital cameras. Twenty-one KODAK EASYSHARE digital cameras were evaluated as part of the $200 to $399 segment. These include easy-to-use C-series models, a performance-oriented 12X optical zoom camera (the KODAK EASYSHARE P850), the high-zoom Z-series, EASYSHARE One, the world’s first WiFi-enabled digital camera, and ultra-compact V530, V550, V603, and V570 models.
The EASYSHARE V570 is the world’s first dual-lens digital camera, offering an ultra-wide and standard-zoom lens system in a compact, style-oriented design.
“This is an important market segment for Kodak,” said Faraci. “The $200 to $399 price range accounts for nearly half of all digital camera sales in the U.S. Consumers often buy cameras in this price range when upgrading or adding a second digital camera for their families.”...
[ 08-28-2006, 06:24 PM: Message edited by: Adam Martin ]
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