DPSIG Notes       4/23/03

 

Shutterfly Photo Prices

4x6 $0.49 - $0.42

5x7 $0.99 - $0.79

Wallet (4) $1.79 - $1.49

8x10 $3.99 - $3.19

11x14 $7.99 - Fuji Crystal Archive Paper

16x20 $17.99 - Fuji Crystal Archive Paper

20x30 $22.99 - Fuji Crystal Archive Paper

 

Ofoto Photo Prices

4 x 6" $0.43-0.49

5 x 7" $0.85-0.99

8 x 10" $3.99

16 x 20" $17.99

20 x 30" $22.99

Wallet $1.79 (4 per sheet)

 

Snapfish Photo Prices

4 x 6" $0.39

5 x 7" $0.89

8x 10" $3.79

Wallet $1.79 (4 -2x3)

Kodak Royal Heavyweight Paper $0.05 extra

Many options - film & digital, including merchandise

 

Common Aspect Ratios

 

Item

Dimensions

Aspect Ratio

Comments

Picture

5x3.5

1.4235

 

Picture

6x4

1.5

 

Picture

7x5

1.4

 

Picture

10x8

1.25

 

Paper

11x8.5

1.2941

 

Large Print

14x11

1.2727

 

Large Print

17x11

1.5454

Green Valley Computer

Large Print

19x13

1.4615

Green Valley Computer

Large Print

20x16

1.25

 

Large Print

30x20

1.5

 

TV

4:3

1.3333

 

Most Digital Cameras

4:3

1.3333

 

Kodak Digital

3:2

1.5

 

35 mm Film

3:2

1.5

 

Widescreen TV

16:9

1.7777

 

Golden Section

1:0.618

1.618

Most Pleasing to the Eye

 


Green Valley Computer Club, Arizona

 

Green Bytes - monthly news letter - download PDF file - check Digital Corner, Camera Club & Backroom

 

Picture  File Size       4/27/03

 

Dscn0001 – For the Web (Paint Shop Pro 7)

 

Size (percent)

Resolution

Size (kb)

Pixels per in (ppi)

100

1600x1200

855

72.0

50

800x600

81

72.0

40

640x480

54

72.0

30

480x360

33

72.0

25

400x300

25

72.0

 

Dscn0001 – For the Web (Irfanview)

 

Size (percent)

Resolution

Size (kb)

Pixels per in (ppi)

100

1600x1200

855

72.0

50

800x600

74

72.0

40

640x480

52

72.0

30

480x360

35

72.0

25

400x300

28

72.0

 

Crop of Dscn0001 – For Printing (Paint Shop Pro 7)

 

Aspect Ratio

Dimensions (in)

Pixels per in (ppi)

Size (kb)

1.4

13.875x9.916

72.0

124

1.4

7x5

143

124

1.4

7x5

200

206

1.4

7x5

250

289

1.4

7x5

300

377

 

 

Nikon Scanners - www.nikoncoolscan.com

 

Coolscan IV ED - $700  Super Coolscan 4000 ED $1300 - scan film & slides

 

Best Print Possible   6/16/03

 

I recently read an article on obtaining the best possible print from a digital file and learned the following: when printing a photo sized 8 by 10 inches or larger, never print from a JPEG file. Always convert it to a TIFF file before printing.

 

While I have always saved files as TIFF for making large prints, I didn't know that it made a difference. If your digital camera allows you to save files in TIFF format, this is a plus. Most don't. Many Olympus and Minolta (also Nikon) do, as does the EOS D60. TIFF does not compress files much, so you won't be able to get as many on a storage card as you would using JPEG.

 

Bill Popejoy, [email protected]

 

Genuine Fractals

 

With Genuine Fractals, an Altamira PrintPro product, your digital images can decorate the side of a barn. Here’s how it works: The Genuine Fractals PrintPro product converts your image into a mathematical representation. The best part is that this representation is resolution-independent. With fractals, you don’t deal with pixels, you deal with scalable textures. The mathematical model allows you to open your pictures at any virtual resolution. You can create images ten times as large as the original or bigger.

 

An image transformation process which enables high quality large prints. A plug-in for Adobe photo programs and Jasc Paint Shop Pro.

 

Search for genuine fractals with google - read the article posted at imaging-resource - Genuine Fractals™ for extraordinary image enlargement capability and greater

flexibility in working with digital images Reviewer: David Halpern. ...

 

Fractal  - (webopedia.com) A word coined by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975 to describe shapes that are "self-similar"-- that is, shapes that look the same at different magnifications. To create a fractal, you start with a simple shape and duplicate it successively according to a set of fixed rules. Oddly enough, such a simple formula for creating shapes can produce very complex structures, some of which have a striking resemblance to objects that appear in the real world. For example, graphics designers use fractals to generate images of mountainous landscapes, coastlines, and flowers. In fact, many of the computer-generated images that appear in science fiction films utilize fractals.

 

 

Photo Blog

 

Blogging (web log) is the practice of posting news, commentary, rants, pictures, interesting links - just about anything at all - to a personal web site. Weblogs are like online journals that anyone can read. You can start up your own online journal for free at sites like blogger.com and livejournal.com. Photo Blogs are similar, but with less ranting.

 

Some sites are: blogeasy.com, blogwise.com, bloguniverse.com.  Or try searching google with photo blog, photolog, or fotolog.

 

There are also programs to facilitate blogging: PowerBlog, W.bloggar.

 

LCD Magnifing Hood

An Xtend-a-View magnifying hood with a rubber eye cup from www.photosolve.com makes seeing the detail on the LCD monitor much easier when shooting in bright light.

 

DPSIG Notes.doc 6/21/03

 

 

 

 

 

 

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