> In a couple of weeks, I'm going to start building my first boat - a CLC
> North Bay. I'd like to photograph the process and, hopefully post some of
> the photos here. I don't own a digital camera but I have a TON of 35mm SLR
> equipment that's been sitting around for several years gathering dust.
> I've been told that with the right film and processing (whatever that
> means!) I can get my pictures processed and get them digitized to a floppy
> disk and the quality will be as good if not better than using a digital
> camera. Can anybody help me with this - what kind of film (print or
> slide), make of film, speed, processing house, etc? I even have space
> available through my ISP for a web page, if I get ambitious enough to
> figure out how to build one. (Or maybe, I could just steal Ross's laptop
> again and hold it ransom to get him to do my web site ;-O

The best thing would be to go to whatever photofinisher you will be using and ask them. If you get a blank stare, go somewhere else!

Take the pix just as you would if they were bring printed on paper. Most people just use regular print film, drop off the roll and tell the photofinisher that they want the output on CD rather than printed... The make and speed of film doesn't really matter.

Of course you will to have a CR-ROM player on your PC! I have heard of some photofinishers who have secure websites that you can download ypur pictures from rather than getting them on CD. It seems to me that unless you had a very fast connection to the 'net it would be painfully slow...

Good Luck with both the pix and the boat.