I have always been happy with the on-screen viewing of photos taken with my Nikon D70, but when printing them out on my ‘photo’ printer, my pictures have always been a little grainy, leading me to worry a bit about whether I ought to upgrade to something with more pixels.
However, I recently had a photo of my (ex) R1 printed out at a local Snappy Snaps outlet. The quality was amazing, and I certainly can’t see any graininess or dithering. I would highly recommend this as a printing option for digital photographers. My photo was printed 12″ x 8″ with no problems at all, and you can even (as I did) pre-process your photos in Photoshop (or your imaging program of choice), write them to a CDRW and take that along to the store instead of just printing straight from your camera’s memory card (as shot).
November 9th, 2005 at 4:40 pm
How much did they charge for this? I wouldn’t mind getting some framed pictures made up from shots I’ve taken.
November 9th, 2005 at 4:47 pm
Jay, The 12″x8″ photo’s were quite expensive at ?Ǭ£9.99 per print. But they use Kodak Royal paper and I ordered them on 1 hour service. The prices do get more affordable as you go down in size, obviously, and are cheaper if you can wait for them. Actually, I will pop in to the Hammersmith branch and pick up a price list.