[filmscanners] Re: No more Kodak CD-R's

["Jorge Talkowski" <talko@pinos.com>]

I will run to buy Kodak CD-R at my local Carrefour. They are in sale at
around 0.60 U$S.

Crazy things in south America.

Jorge, From Buenos Aires



>
> > A shame that, and explains why I can't find any. Anyone got any
specially
> > fond recommendations for any other brands? I've used Verbatim, Traxdata,
> > Philips, Memorex, never had a problem with any of them, but...
> >
> > Regards
>
> I know - we had been using them at our Government Archives with great
> success so far... we will have to do some hunting around for a new
standard
> CD-R (hopefully our sound archives guy, who also runs a recording studio
> will do all the ground work - those sound guys are worse than
photographers
> for being tech-heads, what with their "great 1952 bimble zwummer"
> microphones [= Leica M3] - analog vs digital debate, where to still get a
> good stylus or the best gold contacts...)
>
> I think I mentioned, the only Gold/best Dye layer CD-R are Mitsui (Kodak
> licensed the technology from them) - They also make silver ones comparable
> to the later Kodak Ultima CD-R's. After that, I'm not sure.
>
> As I understand it, two of the most important elements of the CD-R in
terms
> of longevity and reliability is the combination of the foil layer AND the
> dye layer. Testing has shown Gold is in many ways about the best foil
layer,
> silver or the Mitsui/Kodak silver alloy is a good second. But this needs
to
> be combined with a good dye layer. Mitsui's patented phthalocyanine dye
has
> come out in testing as the best so far, especially in combination with a
> gold or silver foil layer. Kodak also used this under license (as did
> Quantegy, but Mitsui made their CD's...). All this is combined with
> excellent quality control - a third major factor (you get what you pay
for,
> especially in CD-R's).
>
> So... right now, I'd probably go for Mitsui Gold or silver, as listed
> below - they aren't the cheapest, but are probably the best/safest. The
nice
> think about the Kodak versions was they were damn cheap for what they
were!
> (gee - I wonder why they didn't make a profit?). It may also be that
Mitsui
> is making CD's for someone else, or someone else is making them under
> license, and they would probably be cheaper - I'm going to leave that to
the
> Audio guys to hunt down
>
>
> tim
>
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