I have been a member of the list for a few years now but have never seen a particular issue discussed, so here goes. Several years ago, I purchased approximately 16 rolls of microfilm from the State Archives in Annapolis and have gotten loads of information from them. As you all know by now, such purchases can no longer be made. Instead, we are offered CD's of those records at about $40.00 per CD. Since hauling CD's to a local library to view them is a bother, I decided to find a company who would convert those microfilm records to CD's which would then allow me to view them on my computer. I first searched on line to find such a company and was not encouraged by the prices to do so. Luckily, I found a small company in the Baltimore area who agreed to do the conversion for a reasonable price. After converting about five of the microfilm rolls to CD's, they told me that the remaining rolls could not be done since their contents were not unifomly arranged. Although I accepted the excuse, I still believe that they had quoted a price that was not profitable and wished to end the arrangement. I never did find another company to do the remaining rolls at an acceptable price. As for the five rolls that were put on CD, they were excellent and saved many trips to the libraries nearby. At the time that I viewed these CD's, my computer's OS was Win 98 part of whose package was Kodal Imaging. I have since gone to a new computer running Win XP which does not have Kodak Imaging as part of it's system. Result----I can no longer view the CD's. Has anyone else tried to do this type of conversion? If so, can you recommend a company that would do it? The conversion was made in tif format. Would another format help? Help, help, help!! Frank Kuhn Frank Kuhn flask100@yahoo.com --------------------------------- Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos.

Frank J. Kuhn wrote: > > As for the five rolls that were put on CD, they were excellent > and saved many trips to the libraries nearby. At the time > that I viewed these CD's, my computer's OS was Win 98 part of > whose package was Kodal Imaging. I have since gone to a new > computer running Win XP which does not have Kodak Imaging as > part of it's system. Result----I can no longer view the CD's. > > Has anyone else tried to do this type of conversion? If so, > can you recommend a company that would do it? The conversion > was made in tif format. Would another format help? Any half-way decent graphics program should be able to view TIFF files, if that is all that is stopping you from viewing them. -- Thomas M. Sommers -- tms@nj.net -- AB2SB