What is Kodak Photo CD?
Kodak Photo CD is an extremely convenient way to get images from film into your computer. You can bring exposed rolls of film to a Photo CD service provider, and they will develop and scan the film to a Photo CD. You can also get scans done from film that has already been developed. Photo CD’s are CD-Recordable media that can be read by all CD-ROM drives manufactured after 1990 or so. There are several imaging applications for the Mac and PC that know how to read Photo CD images. Check out my Photo CD software list for more information. A Photo CD can hold up to 100 images. In reality they can hold much more, but labs usually limit you to 100. Pro Photo CDs hold no more than about 25 images due to the increased resolution. Kodak’s site had some sample images so you could check out what Photo CD can do. In their “Variety Selection” I found my favorite Photo CD sample image, “Cow and Rainbow”. It’s the image that sold me on Photo CD.
