Bona Fide "WOW"!

[Peter iNova]

This is really, really good.

Go over to http://www.ofoto.com/ and sign up for the free 100 prints they'll make for you to introduce their service to you. Then download some shots and wait for the fast service as they mail them to your door.

You are about to become convinced of a few things.

1. Your Nikon 950 is way, no, let me rephrase that, Your Nikon 950 is FAR and AWAY better at making photographs than the better viewfinder 35mm cameras and APS cameras being sold today. Not just in the features, in the PRINTS.

2. Photographic prints over the net are a real COOL idea! The pictures come back on typical 4 x 6 paper (I chose the option that doesn't crop the image on most shots so I have small white strips on the side of most of them) and are as good as you can put on Kodak paper. Well controlled, sharp, indistinguishable from the finest prints.

3. This deal is a genuine bargain. Free usually means hooks into your life in some way but if you never go back for prints at 49 cents each (plus postage) it only would be because some other outfit had a better deal at the same quality.

4. For all those shots where ink-jet printing for the relatives and friends would be too much of a pain, this is the route to go. Save the Epson for the big stuff with custom quality finesses.

5. Ofoto is a class act. They nailed images with all the depth, color, sharpness, refinement and dynamic range you would expect from a perfectly tuned negative. Their speed was exemplary and they even have an on-line tweaking capability to help you get the best results.

Another place http://www.shutterfly.com/ will give you 200 freebie 4 x 6 prints and if they are as good as Ofoto's, they will deserve to get business, too.

Thanks to both Shutterfly and Ofoto for making this try-out so painless.

Now all of you, sign up for your free shots and see for yourself. You have nothing to lose.

-iNova

 

[Lisa]

This is really, really good.

Go over to http://www.ofoto.com/ and sign up for the free 100 prints
they'll make for you to introduce their service to you. Then download
some shots and wait for the fast service as they mail them to your door.

You are about to become convinced of a few things.

1. Your Nikon 950 is way, no, let me rephrase that, Your Nikon 950 is FAR
and AWAY better at making photographs than the better viewfinder 35mm
cameras and APS cameras being sold today. Not just in the features, in
the PRINTS.

2. Photographic prints over the net are a real COOL idea! The pictures
come back on typical 4 x 6 paper (I chose the option that doesn't crop
the image on most shots so I have small white strips on the side of most
of them) and are as good as you can put on Kodak paper. Well controlled,
sharp, indistinguishable from the finest prints.

3. This deal is a genuine bargain. Free usually means hooks into your
life in some way but if you never go back for prints at 49 cents each
(plus postage) it only would be because some other outfit had a better
deal at the same quality.

4. For all those shots where ink-jet printing for the relatives and
friends would be too much of a pain, this is the route to go. Save the
Epson for the big stuff with custom quality finesses.

5. Ofoto is a class act. They nailed images with all the depth, color,
sharpness, refinement and dynamic range you would expect from a perfectly
tuned negative. Their speed was exemplary and they even have an on-line
tweaking capability to help you get the best results.

Another place http://www.shutterfly.com/ will give you 200 freebie 4 x 6
prints and if they are as good as Ofoto's, they will deserve to get
business, too.

Thanks to both Shutterfly and Ofoto for making this try-out so painless.

Now all of you, sign up for your free shots and see for yourself. You
have nothing to lose.

-iNova

I would love to try it out, except I read the fine print..only available to US residensts.

 

[marcus13412]

Peter, this is great! Thanks for the info. By the way, how is your D1?

Marcus

This is really, really good.

Go over to http://www.ofoto.com/ and sign up for the free 100 prints
they'll make for you to introduce their service to you. Then download
some shots and wait for the fast service as they mail them to your door.

You are about to become convinced of a few things.

1. Your Nikon 950 is way, no, let me rephrase that, Your Nikon 950 is FAR
and AWAY better at making photographs than the better viewfinder 35mm
cameras and APS cameras being sold today. Not just in the features, in
the PRINTS.

2. Photographic prints over the net are a real COOL idea! The pictures
come back on typical 4 x 6 paper (I chose the option that doesn't crop
the image on most shots so I have small white strips on the side of most
of them) and are as good as you can put on Kodak paper. Well controlled,
sharp, indistinguishable from the finest prints.

3. This deal is a genuine bargain. Free usually means hooks into your
life in some way but if you never go back for prints at 49 cents each
(plus postage) it only would be because some other outfit had a better
deal at the same quality.

4. For all those shots where ink-jet printing for the relatives and
friends would be too much of a pain, this is the route to go. Save the
Epson for the big stuff with custom quality finesses.

5. Ofoto is a class act. They nailed images with all the depth, color,
sharpness, refinement and dynamic range you would expect from a perfectly
tuned negative. Their speed was exemplary and they even have an on-line
tweaking capability to help you get the best results.

Another place http://www.shutterfly.com/ will give you 200 freebie 4 x 6
prints and if they are as good as Ofoto's, they will deserve to get
business, too.

Thanks to both Shutterfly and Ofoto for making this try-out so painless.

Now all of you, sign up for your free shots and see for yourself. You
have nothing to lose.

-iNova

I would love to try it out, except I read the fine print..only available
to US residensts.

 

[Peter iNova]

Peter, this is great! Thanks for the info. By the way, how is your D1?

Marcus

My D1 got the flu. Retching. High fever. Congestion. The works. Then I tried plugging it into a 440 volt outlet to see if I couldn't shake this awful bug loose.

Magic. Now everything it shoots is at ISO 10,000 and up without streaks, grain or magenta facial colors at all.

Or,

Sorry Marcus, I was one of those guys who said, "If it can't fit in my pocket or on my belt, I'll wait until it can." Maybe by the time they realize that new digital-fed ergonomics are more appropriate the D4 will match my needs better.

Great camera, though. Good start for Nikon in the pro digi field.

Hey, does this mean I get a D-minus?

-iNova

I would love to try it out, except I read the fine print..only available
to US residensts.

Would somebody get this person a US address, please?

Well, Lisa, it's going to cost you 49 cents a shot to see how good it is, then. Plus postage.

-iNova

 

[Steve Mason]

This is really, really good.

Go over to http://www.ofoto.com/ and sign up for the free 100 prints
they'll make for you to introduce their service to you. Then download
some shots and wait for the fast service as they mail them to your door.

I would love to try it out, except I read the fine print..only available
to US residensts.

Ditto. In Canada, well in my part of Canada, we still pay about $11.00 per 8.5x11 sheet. I got 2 small prints of my nest shot, as they claimed they'd have to crop to give me an 8x10 even before they knew what my pixel dimensions were. I still don't understand that, I can print an 8x10 on a Xerox C55 color laser... I had 2 done of my best shot just to see the quality, I was very impressed, but.... waay too much to spend unless it's some reaaly spectacular shot.

 

[Furrukh Khan]

Peter,

In your experience, would you still need to do some photoshop massaging before sending the files to Ofoto? Or do they have a decent automatic system which would produce acceptable prints for aunts and uncles, straight out of Nikon 950?

Cheers!

Furrukh

Peter iNova wrote:
This is really, really good.

Go over to http://www.ofoto.com/ and sign up for the free 100 prints
they'll make for you to introduce their service to you. Then download
some shots and wait for the fast service as they mail them to your door.

You are about to become convinced of a few things.

1. Your Nikon 950 is way, no, let me rephrase that, Your Nikon 950 is FAR
and AWAY better at making photographs than the better viewfinder 35mm
cameras and APS cameras being sold today. Not just in the features, in
the PRINTS.

2. Photographic prints over the net are a real COOL idea! The pictures
come back on typical 4 x 6 paper (I chose the option that doesn't crop
the image on most shots so I have small white strips on the side of most
of them) and are as good as you can put on Kodak paper. Well controlled,
sharp, indistinguishable from the finest prints.

3. This deal is a genuine bargain. Free usually means hooks into your
life in some way but if you never go back for prints at 49 cents each
(plus postage) it only would be because some other outfit had a better
deal at the same quality.

4. For all those shots where ink-jet printing for the relatives and
friends would be too much of a pain, this is the route to go. Save the
Epson for the big stuff with custom quality finesses.

5. Ofoto is a class act. They nailed images with all the depth, color,
sharpness, refinement and dynamic range you would expect from a perfectly
tuned negative. Their speed was exemplary and they even have an on-line
tweaking capability to help you get the best results.

Another place http://www.shutterfly.com/ will give you 200 freebie 4 x 6
prints and if they are as good as Ofoto's, they will deserve to get
business, too.

Thanks to both Shutterfly and Ofoto for making this try-out so painless.

Now all of you, sign up for your free shots and see for yourself. You
have nothing to lose.

-iNova

 

[robert jeantet]

This is really, really good.
Go over to http://www.ofoto.com/ and sign up for the free 100 prints
they'll make for you to introduce their service to you. Then download
some shots and wait for the fast service as they mail them to your door.

Welcome to the club, Peter. Now you can see for yourself why I've been saying good things about Ofoto for the past month or so. When I show them the prints, friends can't believe that these images come from a digital camera. I found the Ofoto prints to be flawless, well color-balanced, focused, with good densities. Without exception. The prints I received from Photoloft were also well focused, sharp, and quickly delivered to my door, but about half of the images had exposure and color balance problems (I sent Photoloft the same image files as I had sent to Ofoto). My next test will be with Shutterfly.

These photo print services (that I'd been impatiently awaiting for over a year) have finally appeared and may allow us all to forget about photo-quality printers... I for one would rather get nice photo prints on photo paper than have to spend days printing my own with expensive ink and paper, not to mention the fact that the real photos will fade less quickly than inkjet images.

Of course I'll still probably print the occasional panoramic on the photo-quality printer, but for regular prints, Ofoto seems for now like the way to go!
regards
Robert Jeantet

 

[John Bean]

As a test, I sent the same 25 images to ofoto, Shutterfly and PhotoAccess, all of which have freebie deals right now. All of the pictures were straight off of the camera. Some were good pictures, some weren't.

All 3 companies produced what I would consider to be high-quality images. The orders all arrived here in AL roughly 1 week after the order was placed.

Ofoto, however, actually adjusted out all of the mistakes I had made with the first set of pictures I took with my CP950 (forgot to set flash white-balance, etc.). The pictures I sent in from my son's Agfa 780c (640x480) also looked better (less blocky) through their process than they did from the other vendors.

I think they all recommended submitting the images directly off of the camera, since the camera's information is stored in the .jpg file. They claim to be able to use these hints in their correction process.

At any rate, since they're free, give them a try right out of the camera. It is easy .

I'm going to fix a few images and resend them to see how they come out after modifications have been made.

John

In your experience, would you still need to do some photoshop massaging
before sending the files to Ofoto? Or do they have a decent automatic
system which would produce acceptable prints for aunts and uncles,
straight out of Nikon 950?

Cheers!

Furrukh

Peter iNova wrote:
This is really, really good.

Go over to http://www.ofoto.com/ and sign up for the free 100 prints
they'll make for you to introduce their service to you. Then download
some shots and wait for the fast service as they mail them to your door.

You are about to become convinced of a few things.

1. Your Nikon 950 is way, no, let me rephrase that, Your Nikon 950 is FAR
and AWAY better at making photographs than the better viewfinder 35mm
cameras and APS cameras being sold today. Not just in the features, in
the PRINTS.

2. Photographic prints over the net are a real COOL idea! The pictures
come back on typical 4 x 6 paper (I chose the option that doesn't crop
the image on most shots so I have small white strips on the side of most
of them) and are as good as you can put on Kodak paper. Well controlled,
sharp, indistinguishable from the finest prints.

3. This deal is a genuine bargain. Free usually means hooks into your
life in some way but if you never go back for prints at 49 cents each
(plus postage) it only would be because some other outfit had a better
deal at the same quality.

4. For all those shots where ink-jet printing for the relatives and
friends would be too much of a pain, this is the route to go. Save the
Epson for the big stuff with custom quality finesses.

5. Ofoto is a class act. They nailed images with all the depth, color,
sharpness, refinement and dynamic range you would expect from a perfectly
tuned negative. Their speed was exemplary and they even have an on-line
tweaking capability to help you get the best results.

Another place http://www.shutterfly.com/ will give you 200 freebie 4 x 6
prints and if they are as good as Ofoto's, they will deserve to get
business, too.

Thanks to both Shutterfly and Ofoto for making this try-out so painless.

Now all of you, sign up for your free shots and see for yourself. You
have nothing to lose.

-iNova

 

[Peter iNova]

Peter,

In your experience, would you still need to do some photoshop massaging
before sending the files to Ofoto? Or do they have a decent automatic
system which would produce acceptable prints for aunts and uncles,
straight out of Nikon 950?

Cheers!

Furrukh

The Ofoto site has a little "photo improvement" software gizmo. I played with it a bit and the thing seemed to help improve a few shots. Some were sent the way the camera took them and the results look like they came from the best commercial developer you ever met. In at least one case, I think Ofoto did a better job than the corrected file I handed them should have produced.

Some of the shots in my first 19 were "improved" with gamma, burning or dodging, color tweaks, etc. from Photoshop. I would guess that if your monitor is anywhere near accurate, you can fix shots at home and get pretty near custom print quality from the Ofoto prints and not need to mess with their picture software on line. Nothing about the prints gave them away as being digital. Not shadow detail, not color intensity, not highlight detail, not edge contouring, not fine patterns, not fine texture, not broad areas of similar tone... it all ended up amazingly well controlled, preserved and portrayed in these 4 x 6 shots.

I'm eager to test the 5 x 7's ($0.99 each) and 8 x 10's ($2.99 each) next and compare results to Shutterfly.

Here's a shot that was taken recently in a place in Hobart, Tasmania with fabulous natural lighting. Really nice restaurant and bar called the Gastrodome in Salamanca Place.

The lighing is contrasty but delicious and I hightened the effect by asking our waitress, Nikki, to stand in a shaft of sunlight. The digital image blows detail out in the bright window and floor accents and there are plenty of places in a shot like this for the shadows to go muddy and clog up.



The Ofoto image controls it all and the version I gave them was the un-tweaked camera original. The print has the subtle warmth on the floor, the cool bleached detail in the window and the hair fine highlights around her back light. Good for the Nikon 950 to have captured it this well, and good for Ofoto for having preserved it so well. I will use this as a test image with any other on-line photo service.

-iNova

 

[Mark Lloyd]

Great, anyone know about any of these sites that service Europe?

Mark.

This is really, really good.

Go over to http://www.ofoto.com/ and sign up for the free 100 prints
they'll make for you to introduce their service to you. Then download
some shots and wait for the fast service as they mail them to your door.

You are about to become convinced of a few things.

1. Your Nikon 950 is way, no, let me rephrase that, Your Nikon 950 is FAR
and AWAY better at making photographs than the better viewfinder 35mm
cameras and APS cameras being sold today. Not just in the features, in
the PRINTS.

2. Photographic prints over the net are a real COOL idea! The pictures
come back on typical 4 x 6 paper (I chose the option that doesn't crop
the image on most shots so I have small white strips on the side of most
of them) and are as good as you can put on Kodak paper. Well controlled,
sharp, indistinguishable from the finest prints.

3. This deal is a genuine bargain. Free usually means hooks into your
life in some way but if you never go back for prints at 49 cents each
(plus postage) it only would be because some other outfit had a better
deal at the same quality.

4. For all those shots where ink-jet printing for the relatives and
friends would be too much of a pain, this is the route to go. Save the
Epson for the big stuff with custom quality finesses.

5. Ofoto is a class act. They nailed images with all the depth, color,
sharpness, refinement and dynamic range you would expect from a perfectly
tuned negative. Their speed was exemplary and they even have an on-line
tweaking capability to help you get the best results.

Another place http://www.shutterfly.com/ will give you 200 freebie 4 x 6
prints and if they are as good as Ofoto's, they will deserve to get
business, too.

Thanks to both Shutterfly and Ofoto for making this try-out so painless.

Now all of you, sign up for your free shots and see for yourself. You
have nothing to lose.

-iNova

 

[Nelson Ford]

I've heard it said that they do NOT want people to tweak things like contrast or gamma because few monitors perfectly adjusted, so while tweaking may make pictures look better on your particular monitor, they may actually look worse when printed. (Except, of course, if the picture is clearly in need of fixing...)

In your experience, would you still need to do some photoshop massaging
before sending the files to Ofoto? Or do they have a decent automatic
system which would produce acceptable prints for aunts and uncles,
straight out of Nikon 950?

 

[Nelson Ford]

I thought these deals were only good in the U.S.
How did you get the prints?

This is really, really good.

Go over to http://www.ofoto.com/ and sign up for the free 100 prints
they'll make for you to introduce their service to you. Then download
some shots and wait for the fast service as they mail them to your door.

You are about to become convinced of a few things.

1. Your Nikon 950 is way, no, let me rephrase that, Your Nikon 950 is FAR
and AWAY better at making photographs than the better viewfinder 35mm
cameras and APS cameras being sold today. Not just in the features, in
the PRINTS.

2. Photographic prints over the net are a real COOL idea! The pictures
come back on typical 4 x 6 paper (I chose the option that doesn't crop
the image on most shots so I have small white strips on the side of most
of them) and are as good as you can put on Kodak paper. Well controlled,
sharp, indistinguishable from the finest prints.

3. This deal is a genuine bargain. Free usually means hooks into your
life in some way but if you never go back for prints at 49 cents each
(plus postage) it only would be because some other outfit had a better
deal at the same quality.

4. For all those shots where ink-jet printing for the relatives and
friends would be too much of a pain, this is the route to go. Save the
Epson for the big stuff with custom quality finesses.

5. Ofoto is a class act. They nailed images with all the depth, color,
sharpness, refinement and dynamic range you would expect from a perfectly
tuned negative. Their speed was exemplary and they even have an on-line
tweaking capability to help you get the best results.

Another place http://www.shutterfly.com/ will give you 200 freebie 4 x 6
prints and if they are as good as Ofoto's, they will deserve to get
business, too.

Thanks to both Shutterfly and Ofoto for making this try-out so painless.

Now all of you, sign up for your free shots and see for yourself. You
have nothing to lose.

-iNova

 

[Furrukh Khan]

Thanks to everyone who answered my post. This sounds very promising! I will definitely give these services a try.

Cheers,

Furrukh

Furrukh wrote:
Peter,

In your experience, would you still need to do some photoshop massaging
before sending the files to Ofoto? Or do they have a decent automatic
system which would produce acceptable prints for aunts and uncles,
straight out of Nikon 950?

Cheers!

Furrukh

Peter iNova wrote:
This is really, really good.

Go over to http://www.ofoto.com/ and sign up for the free 100 prints
they'll make for you to introduce their service to you. Then download
some shots and wait for the fast service as they mail them to your door.

You are about to become convinced of a few things.

1. Your Nikon 950 is way, no, let me rephrase that, Your Nikon 950 is FAR
and AWAY better at making photographs than the better viewfinder 35mm
cameras and APS cameras being sold today. Not just in the features, in
the PRINTS.

2. Photographic prints over the net are a real COOL idea! The pictures
come back on typical 4 x 6 paper (I chose the option that doesn't crop
the image on most shots so I have small white strips on the side of most
of them) and are as good as you can put on Kodak paper. Well controlled,
sharp, indistinguishable from the finest prints.

3. This deal is a genuine bargain. Free usually means hooks into your
life in some way but if you never go back for prints at 49 cents each
(plus postage) it only would be because some other outfit had a better
deal at the same quality.

4. For all those shots where ink-jet printing for the relatives and
friends would be too much of a pain, this is the route to go. Save the
Epson for the big stuff with custom quality finesses.

5. Ofoto is a class act. They nailed images with all the depth, color,
sharpness, refinement and dynamic range you would expect from a perfectly
tuned negative. Their speed was exemplary and they even have an on-line
tweaking capability to help you get the best results.

Another place http://www.shutterfly.com/ will give you 200 freebie 4 x 6
prints and if they are as good as Ofoto's, they will deserve to get
business, too.

Thanks to both Shutterfly and Ofoto for making this try-out so painless.

Now all of you, sign up for your free shots and see for yourself. You
have nothing to lose.

-iNova

 

[Ruth Happel]

This is really, really good.

Go over to http://www.ofoto.com/ and sign up for the free 100 prints
they'll make for you to introduce their service to you. Then download
some shots and wait for the fast service as they mail them to your door.

You are about to become convinced of a few things.

1. Your Nikon 950 is way, no, let me rephrase that, Your Nikon 950 is FAR
and AWAY better at making photographs than the better viewfinder 35mm
cameras and APS cameras being sold today. Not just in the features, in
the PRINTS.

2. Photographic prints over the net are a real COOL idea! The pictures
come back on typical 4 x 6 paper (I chose the option that doesn't crop
the image on most shots so I have small white strips on the side of most
of them) and are as good as you can put on Kodak paper. Well controlled,
sharp, indistinguishable from the finest prints.

3. This deal is a genuine bargain. Free usually means hooks into your
life in some way but if you never go back for prints at 49 cents each
(plus postage) it only would be because some other outfit had a better
deal at the same quality.

4. For all those shots where ink-jet printing for the relatives and
friends would be too much of a pain, this is the route to go. Save the
Epson for the big stuff with custom quality finesses.

5. Ofoto is a class act. They nailed images with all the depth, color,
sharpness, refinement and dynamic range you would expect from a perfectly
tuned negative. Their speed was exemplary and they even have an on-line
tweaking capability to help you get the best results.

Another place http://www.shutterfly.com/ will give you 200 freebie 4 x 6
prints and if they are as good as Ofoto's, they will deserve to get
business, too.

Thanks to both Shutterfly and Ofoto for making this try-out so painless.

Now all of you, sign up for your free shots and see for yourself. You
have nothing to lose.

-iNova

I used Ofoto about two months ago, when they were in beta stage, and was really impressed. At that time, their site wasn't officially open, but I got 10 prints done for them to work the bugs out. It took a while to get them in the mail, but they were nothing short of spectacular. Better than any prints I've made with my "real" cameras, mostly Nikon and Canon cameras. Since they officially opened their site, they have some software for enhancing photos before upload. I largely put my pictures up unedited, except for cropping to the dimension of the print to maximize what they were doing. Since then, I have tried using their editing program and while it's not a high end package, it generally does the job. I've also signed up recently with Shutterfly, though I haven't tried them yet. But it's one more reason to use digital cameras. And a lot easier than printing out photos for family and friends on my HP photo printer, as I have been doing. Definitely give them a try.

 

[ian]

Peter,
Welcome to 1999..
Before the holidays I sent a bunch of stuff off to ezprints.com and my mom was
so happy with the results she had me take Christmas photos of her, ezprints
made 50 copies and she mailed them to her family/friends. Her whole family
exchanges photos every year so this is nothing new. She did get several
unsolicited comments about how sharp and well colored the prints were.
I'm sold.

BTW, I remember you once saying you hadn't run into the fringing much.
Your photo below has it in spades.

I took my original blown out image I posted here of the black car against
a white building and sent that off to ezprints.com to see how the fringing
would print. It's not terribly noticable, but it's there. How does it
look in the ophoto prints? It's a pretty unique color. A decent filter
might minimize the effect. PS will take it out with a narrow hue/saturation
adjustment of course, but something more automated might be nice.

Here's a shot that was taken recently in a place in Hobart, Tasmania with
fabulous natural lighting. Really nice restaurant and bar called the
Gastrodome in Salamanca Place.

The lighing is contrasty but delicious and I hightened the effect by
asking our waitress, Nikki, to stand in a shaft of sunlight. The digital
image blows detail out in the bright window and floor accents and there
are plenty of places in a shot like this for the shadows to go muddy and
clog up.



The Ofoto image controls it all and the version I gave them was the
un-tweaked camera original. The print has the subtle warmth on the
floor, the cool bleached detail in the window and the hair fine
highlights around her back light. Good for the Nikon 950 to have
captured it this well, and good for Ofoto for having preserved it so
well. I will use this as a test image with any other on-line photo
service.

-iNova

 

[rick]

The most depressing thing about Ofoto to me was- when I rec'd the photo 's back, I realized how value-less all of my "normal" cameras and lenses had just became. Even scanned photo's I had digitized & compressed looked better from Ofoto than the prints made from the original at my home town lab.

Anyone want to buy:
Cannon bodies
100mm macro lens
asortment of normal lenses
Sinar 4x5 camera
Rodenstock 180mm macro lens

This is really, really good.

Go over to http://www.ofoto.com/ and sign up for the free 100 prints
they'll make for you to introduce their service to you. Then download
some shots and wait for the fast service as they mail them to your door.

You are about to become convinced of a few things.

1. Your Nikon 950 is way, no, let me rephrase that, Your Nikon 950 is FAR
and AWAY better at making photographs than the better viewfinder 35mm
cameras and APS cameras being sold today. Not just in the features, in
the PRINTS.

2. Photographic prints over the net are a real COOL idea! The pictures
come back on typical 4 x 6 paper (I chose the option that doesn't crop
the image on most shots so I have small white strips on the side of most
of them) and are as good as you can put on Kodak paper. Well controlled,
sharp, indistinguishable from the finest prints.

3. This deal is a genuine bargain. Free usually means hooks into your
life in some way but if you never go back for prints at 49 cents each
(plus postage) it only would be because some other outfit had a better
deal at the same quality.

4. For all those shots where ink-jet printing for the relatives and
friends would be too much of a pain, this is the route to go. Save the
Epson for the big stuff with custom quality finesses.

5. Ofoto is a class act. They nailed images with all the depth, color,
sharpness, refinement and dynamic range you would expect from a perfectly
tuned negative. Their speed was exemplary and they even have an on-line
tweaking capability to help you get the best results.

Another place http://www.shutterfly.com/ will give you 200 freebie 4 x 6
prints and if they are as good as Ofoto's, they will deserve to get
business, too.

Thanks to both Shutterfly and Ofoto for making this try-out so painless.

Now all of you, sign up for your free shots and see for yourself. You
have nothing to lose.

-iNova

 

[Stephen Tupaj]

This is really, really good.

Go over to http://www.ofoto.com/ and sign up for the free 100 prints

they'll make for you to introduce their service to you. Then download

some shots and wait for the fast service as they mail them to your door.

You are about to become convinced of a few things.

For your next delayed revelation, do what us Olympus users did close to a week ago...

1) Go to the http://www.ofoto.com web site

2) Download their "upload assistant" utility (whether you are interested in it or not)

3) Upload a picture or two with this utility just for fun.

4) You will be credited with 50 additional free prints to add to your initial 100

 

[Mike Platt]

Well, I believe Peter just came back from Australia. Time moves much slower down there.

Peter iNova wrote:

This is really, really good.

Go over to http://www.ofoto.com/ and sign up for the free 100 prints

they'll make for you to introduce their service to you. Then download

some shots and wait for the fast service as they mail them to your door.

You are about to become convinced of a few things.

For your next delayed revelation, do what us Olympus users did close to

a week ago...

1) Go to the http://www.ofoto.com web site

2) Download their "upload assistant" utility (whether you are interested

in it or not)

3) Upload a picture or two with this utility just for fun.

4) You will be credited with 50 additional free prints to add to your

initial 100

 

[Peter iNova]

I thought these deals were only good in the U.S.
How did you get the prints?

I cheated. I live in the US.

-iNova

 

[Peter iNova]

Peter,
Welcome to 1999..
Before the holidays I sent a bunch of stuff off to ezprints.com and my
mom was
so happy with the results she had me take Christmas photos of her, ezprints
made 50 copies and she mailed them to her family/friends. Her whole family
exchanges photos every year so this is nothing new. She did get several
unsolicited comments about how sharp and well colored the prints were.
I'm sold.

BTW, I remember you once saying you hadn't run into the fringing much.
Your photo below has it in spades.

One spade at least.

The sun was illuminating the sky within 20 degrees of that skylight opening. The fringe effect is directly linked to the amount of spectral highlight that exists near a dark silouette and this does show it. Notice that spectral, blown out sunglints and windows just as far off optical center don't show it at all, just the extreme skylight. Of course, on the shot there is no distinction between bleached to white that happened one stop over or fifty stops over sensor maximization. Chips still have a way to go. The ofoto held together very well with whites carried to paper white and black shadow areas still holding detail.

-iNova

I took my original blown out image I posted here of the black car against
a white building and sent that off to ezprints.com to see how the fringing
would print. It's not terribly noticable, but it's there. How does it
look in the ophoto prints? It's a pretty unique color. A decent filter
might minimize the effect. PS will take it out with a narrow
hue/saturation
adjustment of course, but something more automated might be nice.

Here's a shot that was taken recently in a place in Hobart, Tasmania with
fabulous natural lighting. Really nice restaurant and bar called the
Gastrodome in Salamanca Place.

The lighing is contrasty but delicious and I hightened the effect by
asking our waitress, Nikki, to stand in a shaft of sunlight. The digital
image blows detail out in the bright window and floor accents and there
are plenty of places in a shot like this for the shadows to go muddy and
clog up.



The Ofoto image controls it all and the version I gave them was the
un-tweaked camera original. The print has the subtle warmth on the
floor, the cool bleached detail in the window and the hair fine
highlights around her back light. Good for the Nikon 950 to have
captured it this well, and good for Ofoto for having preserved it so
well. I will use this as a test image with any other on-line photo
service.

-iNova