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Wayne Redden
 

photos on floppies


I had a roll of 35mm color negative film developed at Wal-mart and had them upload the photos on-line as well as produce prints. The quality of the photos on-line is very poor. Why?


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July 15, 2002

 

Leo Enriquez
  Probably because in order for the webpage to download faster on your computer, the pics had to be downgraded (w/less kbs)!...The best thing you can do for your ownself is buy a good scanner with a good resolution (1200 x 2400 at least), and save the pics you want in a good cd, because you have more huge way capacity than a simple floopy!...


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July 16, 2002

 

doug Nelson
  You don't have AOL do you? If so, you must go to My AOL and disable their compression trick so you can see images that are not any more compressed than JPEG does anyway.

WalMart's operator scans off the film. Even though it's automated, your images should show up fine on screen. If the problem is not AOL or some built-in compression going on with your service provider, fire Wal-Mart, and do as Leo says.


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July 19, 2002

 
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