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8/13/2004

Tech newsletter issue #0

Welcome Tim.

If anyone is interested in buying blank DVDs, you should know that Princo is absolute crap.

The best value DVD media is Ritek, and you can get a spindle of 50 for $44 from these guys - http://www.digicity.com.au/ who are near Central, I'll pick up some early next week. If you must you can also get Princo DVDs from them, $28 for 50.

If you want to find out more info, have a look at whirlpool's board's.

I've dropped off 20 photos on a PC at the uni's chemist to develop, 35c each, not as cheap as at circiular quay where it's 30c each for 30+ prints, but it's certainly more convieient for me, but the uni one is 1 or 2 days rather than an hour. =(

For larger prints I'm looking at http://www.extrafilm.com.au/ where with their prepaid card you can get a 10" by 15" print for $5 with $2.50 to ship an order, tempting as my printer only does A4.

For more professional prints I've found - http://www.streetsimaging.com.au/ I don't think I'll use them just yet though.
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I should add, from someone coming from the analog end of the photo world: Don't get a kodak photo CD, it's shit.
 
Why bother with analogue? Get yourself a nice digital camera and don't worry about getting negatives scanned. =)

I don't like how little dynamic range I get from digi, but it's getting better, and works fine if you're careful.
 
Oh, if you really must use film, you can do what the pros do and get it scanned properly, fix it up on the computer and then print it, either that or find a place that has a modern mini-labs which does the same thing.
 

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