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No CD-ROM drive? Try pix on a floppy; Seattle Film Works scans film onto 1.44MB disk; alternative to Photo CD? (PhotoWorks and PhotoWorks Plus image editor, Commix's Floppy Shots and other PC photo processing technology)(Product Announcement)
For all those people whose pc lacks a cd-rom drive, Seattle FilmWorks has an alternative to Photo CD. For $13.90, SFW will develop and print a 24-exposure roll of film, scan the images and compress them onto a 3 1/2" floppy disk. What's more, when it mails your prints, negatives and disk to you, it will throw in a roll of blank film and a postpaid mailer for your next order.
The result is not quite the same as with Photo CD. For one thing, SFW provides only one resolution: 24-bit color at 640x480 pixels. That's a good resolution for displaying the images on your computer screen, but it limits the size of any printed version. Photo CD offers multiple resolutions from …
