Photo Processing

I was pleased to see your review of photo Web sites (“Free Photo Sites Not a Snap to Use,” E-Review, July 27), but I don’t understand why you dismiss the idea of paying $6 to have your photos scanned at the time of processing.

Look at what a hassle each of those Web sites were to use. And I think you may be underestimating how long it will take you to scan your photos at Kinko’s and save them to diskettes. How much is your time worth? You appear to be willing to spend a lot more of your time and suffer a lot more frustration and inconvenience than I am just to save $6.

By the way, people like me who shoot slides have even fewer options because we cannot scan slides ourselves without access to specialized slide scanners. For me it’s a no-brainer to pay to have my slides scanned onto a Kodak Photo CD at the time of processing. I just wish I knew of a moderately priced or free Web site where I could upload the scanned images for relatives to see.

EVAN H. ZUCKER

San Diego

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I too am not keen on the $6 CD, but I have found that Longs Drugs has a reasonable service. For a 24-exposure roll, I can get either double 4-by-6 prints or one set of prints and a floppy. Only takes a day or two.

ROBERT GERITY

Santa Barbara