taking photos to a high street printer

chips · Aug 2, 2004

hiya! bit of a newbie question:

if i want to get prints from a high street store like jessops should i put my photos on a cd-r an take that in? or take in my memory card? do i lose quality if i put them on a cd?

thanks for any help,

tom

oriecat · Aug 2, 2004

Hey, this forum is about printing your own work in a darkroom, so I think your question would be better in General. Maybe a mod will come along and move it for you...

oriecat · Aug 2, 2004

Can we get a mod in here please?! Do all of you ignore this forum??

Jeff Canes · Aug 2, 2004

Ether should work fine with no lost of quality; personally Ive had some problems with CF; because I forget not to copy the files to the root on the CF; the photo kiosk at the min-lab I use; looks for files in subfolders that cameras create

BernieSC · Aug 3, 2004

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do i lose quality if i put them on a cd?

Thats the beautie of digital if you just copy the files from one to another you do not lose any quality you can copy a digital file over and over and it changes nothing about it.

StvShoop · Aug 3, 2004

i wouldn't put a card in one of those :shock:

who knows what else has been in there, and cards are still too expensive.

BernieSC said:
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do i lose quality if i put them on a cd?

Thats the beautie of digital if you just copy the files from one to another you do not lose any quality you can copy a digital file over and over and it changes nothing about it.

yep, that's the way

AIRIC · Aug 3, 2004

I find to get the most out of the pics I adjust them in photoshop first. Contrast and saturation. I work for a large lab in Canada and we are getting hit hard with broken pins in the CF card readers. I would not subject my card to a store reader. Beside I would want to make a copy of my images first before I mess around with them in another machine. One of the first sets of images I took were corrupted in a card reader and it cost me $40US to get recovery software.

My practice is to downlaod the images to my hard drive, burn a CD right away. Edit the best images for printing and then I delete the images from the card. At that point I have two CDs with my best images and they are still on the hard drive.

At this pint I seriously worry about the archiving of my images. I can still print my father's and grandfather's negatives that date back to the 1910s. I hope my grandchildren can make prints of my digital images in 2080.

This is a photo my grandfather took in 1929 of the British R-100 airship at St. Hubert Quebec. This was the one and only Atlantic crossing of the R-100 and I'm sure glad I still have the negatives in good condition as well as digital files.

Just my two Loonies worth,

Eric