There are tons of photos lying at home - beginning 4 generations ago. Both positive and film negative. Want to digitize them. Any recommendations for good film negative/positive scanners? I could find a bunch on Amazon and Ebay, however haven't done enough background homework/research.
Alternately, if anyone has this in Chennai and can spare for a few days, I'd obviously be most thankful!
Showing posts with label digital camera. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital camera. Show all posts
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Printing Digital Photos in India ...
Finally, thanks to "The Hindu" newspaper, I came to know about the existence of printing digital photos via websites in India.
Almost all of these sites provide unlimited storage for photo albums and will print and courier photos to your home. I'm yet to see a tie-up emerging between these photo sites and a major retailer like Food World, Spencers, Trinethra, Subiksha, Reliance Retail, Konica or Kodak Digital Express Studios, etc. That option would allow me to ask my prints to be printed at the nearest retailer and provide a pick-up option, thereby saving on costly courier charges.
Here's the list of sites.
Snapfish India (a wholly owned subsidiary of India)
MeraSnap
ZoomIn
Picsquare
Have tried out Snapfish, fairly satisfied with the photos. The site definitely has a lot of scope for improvement. Their courier charges seem a bit on the higher side when compared to others. However, the HP name is what gives me certain amount of peace of mind in terms of a lot of things.
May try out others.
Almost all of these sites provide unlimited storage for photo albums and will print and courier photos to your home. I'm yet to see a tie-up emerging between these photo sites and a major retailer like Food World, Spencers, Trinethra, Subiksha, Reliance Retail, Konica or Kodak Digital Express Studios, etc. That option would allow me to ask my prints to be printed at the nearest retailer and provide a pick-up option, thereby saving on costly courier charges.
Here's the list of sites.
Snapfish India (a wholly owned subsidiary of India)
MeraSnap
ZoomIn
Picsquare
Have tried out Snapfish, fairly satisfied with the photos. The site definitely has a lot of scope for improvement. Their courier charges seem a bit on the higher side when compared to others. However, the HP name is what gives me certain amount of peace of mind in terms of a lot of things.
May try out others.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
AVI to MPEG4 conversion
Given the huge size of AVI files being produced by my digital camera even for 2-3 mins videos (ranging around 45+MB in size), I need to figure out if there are better compression algorithms out there. Looks like MPEG-4 may be a better choice, however my camera (Canon A510) doesn't record in that format.
While I still have to completely understand all the various formats and their pros/cons, I decided to check out conversion utilities available out there. Most of them are substantial $$, mediacoder is freeware and uses a good amount of conversion encoders freely available.
Now to the interesting part - I tried converting a 50MB AVI file to MPEG-4 format and the conversion period started increasing from 600hrs to 1200hrs to 2000+hrs on an intel mobile centrino 1.6GHz processor with 512MB RAM. I just gave up - understandably.
Either I'm missing something, the tool is wrong, estimation is screwed up, or it's just not worth doing it in software.
Anyone done this earlier and has better inputs/insight ?
While I still have to completely understand all the various formats and their pros/cons, I decided to check out conversion utilities available out there. Most of them are substantial $$, mediacoder is freeware and uses a good amount of conversion encoders freely available.
Now to the interesting part - I tried converting a 50MB AVI file to MPEG-4 format and the conversion period started increasing from 600hrs to 1200hrs to 2000+hrs on an intel mobile centrino 1.6GHz processor with 512MB RAM. I just gave up - understandably.
Either I'm missing something, the tool is wrong, estimation is screwed up, or it's just not worth doing it in software.
Anyone done this earlier and has better inputs/insight ?
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