Printing digital photos
Posted by: kevinrt on 30 August 2004
I have a Canon digital ixus, and I mainly plan to store photos on my hard drive (single cable plugs into camera and computer usb, and the pictures fly across).
If I wanted to get prints of some of them, I thought it would be convenient to transfer them back from the hard drive onto the camera's memory card and take that to one of these photo printing machines that Kodak are now touting.
Is there a way to transfer images from the hard drive back to the memory card? I can't find a way to do it with the camera's supplied software. Would an add-on memory card reader be able to do this?
Posted on: 30 August 2004 by Derek Wright
If you have broadband - ftp, email or web upload the files to an online lab
www.photobox.co.uk does good work for me
not all High Street print places understand that a lot of digital images are a different ratio to 35mm images and so cut the heads and feet of the digital images.
Derek
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Posted on: 31 August 2004 by Bosh
Yes a USB card reader will allow you to do this using Windows explorer, alternatively why not burn on to a CD-R
I used one of these machines for the first time in our local Jacobs a couple of weeks ago and was very pleasantly surprised with the results.
With 7" x 5" prints from a Minolta F300 on 5m pixels and standard Jpeg compression, the results were better than all but the very best ones I got from my Minolta Dynax 700i and Kodacolor gold 100.
The prints were not cheap (45p each 6"x4"s at 39p) but they become cheaper (50 6"x4" for £5) if you can wait a couple of days for them
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by kevinrt
Thanks guys.
I've found a Belkin USB reader/writer for my memory card, on discount at the local Jessops, so I'll give that a try.
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by Harvey
if you haven't already got the reader IIRC Canon cameras comes with the Zoombrowser software that allows you to upload from the PC to the camera back along the cable you mentioned. It's bloaty software but it worked. I've found Photobox to be better quality than Jessops or the Kodak in shop units with prints of all sizes and the service is really sweet
Posted on: 01 September 2004 by kevinrt
I think the ZoomBrowser is Windows software and I use Apple at home.
Where do you find Photobox? I haven't noticed any around my area.
Posted on: 01 September 2004 by max in hampshire
Hi Kevin
I have also been using photobox for some time. Their photos are excellent and the customer service is first rate.
photobox.co.uk
Cheers
Max
Posted on: 02 September 2004 by Harvey
You might be right about the zoombrowser being for Windows, I can't remember. I've just googled and found that canon do somehting called imagebrowser for mac which might be comparable.
