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PhotoCD
Kodak's
PhotoCD system was originally developed for the
consumer market, but it has received a lot of
attention from desktop publishers, graphic artists
and multimedia producers.
What
is PhotoCD?
Back when still video cameras first appeared, Kodak
began to worry that this type of camera would spell
the death of film. So, the company set about
creating a system that provided the features of a
still video camera (your pictures on TV) while
preserving film.
How
does PhotoCD work?
A roll of film is exposed in the traditional way;
using your camera. The film is then developed, and
the photo lab uses a Kodak digitizer to digitize
the image and then store them on a writeable CDROM
in a proprietary format. Over 100 high-resolution
images can be stored on one PhotoCD.
Kodak originaly intended users to buy a special CD
player that connected to a television to let you
watch your pictures. It was simply marvelous, and
it's simply hard to believe that Kodak thought a
lot of people would want to look at their
photographs on television.
Still, the PhotoCD contains the images digitized at
3072 by 2048 pixels, and Kodak has released
programs for reading PhotoCDs on CD-ROM drives
attached to computers. Many graphic applications
can now read PhotoCD files and Apple even included
software for reading PhotoCD discs into the
operating system.
last
updated: 6/11/98 MDM
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