Kodak Picture CD

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The Kodak Picture CD is a historical ISO-9660-compliant format of a CD-ROM based on the Yellow Book standard and was used for the digital archiving of photographs. It was offered exclusively as an additional service in the development of 35mm negative or APS films.

General

The Kodak Picture CD was offered as an inexpensive alternative to the well-known Kodak Photo CD , and was primarily aimed at amateur photographers. It was developed and introduced in the summer of 1999 by the Eastman Kodak Company . The digitized photographs were saved on the compact disc with 8 bits per color channel in the lossy JPEG format . The images of 35mm films were available with a resolution of 1536 × 1024 pixels and for APS films with 1536 × 864 pixels. The image files were saved in the “PICTURE” directory. Only one negative film could be archived on a Kodak Picture CD.

Furnishing

A digital contact sheet (index print) was included so that the image files can be assigned to the associated paper prints . In order to guarantee the assignment between the negative film and the associated picture CD, the serial number of the film was printed on the CD in addition to the development date.

In addition to the photographs, there were also rudimentary programs for Windows and Macintosh for viewing, presenting and editing images on the CD-ROM.

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