On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Phillips, III, J.A. wrote:

> The one I am familiar with is the photo cd for photo cd
> players. It is my understanding these cd's will not work with a pc
> cd-rom drive, but only with Photo CD Players (which are being phased
> out). Can anyone comment on these two ideas?

There are several different formats of photo-cd, but all are accessible
via CD-ROM drive, as long as you have the right drivers. Very old CD-ROM
drives may have some difficulty with photo-cd's, but that is unlikely to
be a problem these days.

> purchase this drove the cost down to a little under $2 an image. Some

I have found places that do scans from 35mm slides and negatives for as
low as 80 cents per image. (However, the quality was not all that great.
It depends on why you're scanning - documentation or reproduction.)

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