So when I got the pictures, the prints looked pretty good. But when I checked out the pictures on the CD, something wasn't right. They weren't my pictures! They were somebody's Caribbean vacation pictures. Most of the pictures were taken on some sort of tubing trip down a river. You'd think this wouldn't be disturbing except for the fat bare legs taking up the bottom third of every picture. So I called the store and they said I could come back and swap the CD. Three trips to the mall in 2 days is a bit much.
So I finally got my pictures on CD. They are pretty good. 3090 by 2048 makes good sized 6.3 megapixel images. And there are no flaws: no dirt, no scratches, no dust, no hair. Even better than the negative scans I made at home. Here's a sample:
Since they are film scans you can see some film grain. It was a 400-speed film. (To be more specific, it is Fujicolor Superia X-TRA 400. My last film was a Kodak Ultra Max 400.) I'm okay with the grain since the picture quality is very good. I had to colour-correct some images. And some others that had bad exposure were lightened in development. That's a bit annoying since I don't think it improved the image.
