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Well let's anaylze this statement. I am planning a trip to Colorado in april. I will be in both Colorado Spring and Denver - a google search brings up very few if any cyber cafes and those that are there never answered emails about renting time on a machine that could burn CD or DVD. this is a real life situation and not made up - I agree that this must be the wave of the future - but it's not yet a reality. So using a mindstore is still reasonable. In the area that you live , could you go somewhere relatively conveniently to this CD burning other than your own computer?

ernie nitka

> Posted by Wim van Gelderen on Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 8:51 pm: > > But consider this: nowadays, when you are in area where you can use a > digital camera (i.e. near enough to a wall socket to reload the > batteries), you are probalby also near a computer with a cd-burner in > it. > So, why bother with the extra gadgets at all?
 
In the area that you live , could you > go somewhere relatively conveniently to this CD burning other than > your own computer? > > ernie nitka

Sure, Ernie. I can do it in the Walmart in little old Natchitoches, LA.

Sonny
 
Granted, it will take another year, maybe two before it will be an easy thing to do. But specially in 'poorer' countries where there is al lot of cd-ripping going on (i.e Mexico) it might already be easier than you think.
I guess here (Amsterdam) you would just go to a photo shop, not a cyber cafe.
 
In Costa Rica it turned out to be rather easy. I just didn't notice, because I didn't look out for it, not knowing it was a possibility at all.
 
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sonny - tell me more - what do you do - walk in with your compact flash card ( or whatever is spit out from the digital camera) and they in turn burn it's contents onto a CD?

ernie

> Sure, Ernie. I can do it in the Walmart in little old Natchitoches, > LA. > > Sonny
 
sonny - tell me more - what do you do - walk in with your compact > flash card ( or whatever is spit out from the digital camera) and they > in turn burn it's contents onto a CD? > > ernie

Yeah, they will print out the contents as prints or make a CD. I think most Walmarts with a frontier lab do that now. They even have a little console at ours where you can do some editing.

Sonny
 
You can even edit the stuff, load it back onto the compact flash or whatever, and take that to Walmart and they'll print it of burn a CD.

Sonny
 
In Europe most High Street photo processing places that I know have=20 gone digital over the past year or two. They all offer prints from any=20=

digital medium as well as scanning negatives to CD or memory card etc.=20=

My local place will transfer images from memory card (any sort) to CD.

The only two services they seem not to offer are USB ports on the=20 counter and internet.

Public libraries often have free internet areas, and the techies are=20 very helpful. If you were on vacation I am sure that they would help=20 you send images to yourself over the internet.

Jon
 
Cathy

Thank you for a very full and considered reply.

Judging from the response it generated from others I will need to carry=20=

on testing and decide for myself.

I guess 'how big?' is linked to 'how good?'.

At www.corbis.com they offer images 640px wide to home users and claim=20=

that they will print up to 6" wide. The same images offered to=20 commercial users are rated at about 2" wide.

Jon
 
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