Question on Kodak Photo Discs (or photo discs in general)

[TigerMan]

I wanted to get some pictures onto my computer for some items I may be selling and just some general pictures, and since I don't have a digi cam or scanner, photo discs is the only way really for me. I wanted see, what quality can I expect from one? Will the pictures come out good? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[Thordic]

The photos they put on the disk are about half a meg.

Pretty good quality, not professional quality or anything, but good.

[-J�ker-]

this pic of my mag came from a photo disc http://www.geocities.com/smurf_joker...l?981073633530

[bornl33t]

go to wally world and get theirs for 4$

the pics are AWESOME and HUGE
That's Nicky, no she's not stoned, I just caught her off guard

[Gotenks]

I use kodaks photo discs...

I thought I was getting a CD, but it was those damn little tiny floppy disk!

Anyways, this is the quality from 36 pictures on 2 floppy disks (youll be surprised, its probably even better quality on the cd)

[boomerfoxtrot]

http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51486

all the action shots where on kodak disk.. I was displeased with the qulity. I have my real pictures in one had, and then the other.. I have this disk... ...

maybe if you go to wolf cam or something like that .. (a photo shop) they can give you the best qulity... or maybe the Photo CD, or even.. having the pix emailed to you!
but the picture disk.. yeah the floppy disk... it sucked

[mykroft]

PhotoCD's are available in 2 resolutions. The low-res is OK for web use, but not printing to a printer or taking into a Fuji Frontier lab (What most Wallyworlds have) and getting printed to paper. The High-res ones will quickly justify the scanner, they're expensive. I can't recommend photodisk, due to the poor life of floppy discs and the low resolution (It's fine for 4x6 prints, but you're screwed if you ever want an 8x10) The scans of my pics I do at 360dpi are 500k each and I use those for web only, for printing & such I would use 1200dpi scans or higher, at multi-megabit file sizes (I know people who scan their slides at 180MB per image)

I shoot 2-3 rolls a week, if not more, and was looking at PhotoCD to save on scan time. After pricing it, I decided that scanning my prints and saving for a proper negative scanner is way cheaper, but then I shoot a lot more pics than most.

A scanner is only about $60 for a decent 1200dpi Canon.

Interestingly enough, there is a new kiosk type machine that should be appearing over the next 6-8 months that takes your roll film (35mm) develops it and scans to CD in about 5 minutes, with high-res scans, although you don't get the negs back.