For the past two years I've preferred http://www.photoaccess.com/. At that time I sent the same photo to every online printing service I could find (ofoto, shutterfly, yahoo, snapfish, etc). Side by side it was amazing to see the differences. However, all good things must come to an end, as photoaccess was recently purchased by PhotoWorks (who I have never been a fan of). That being said, the pictures are still pretty good, though I think an updated personal "comparison" is now in order. As an aside, I did the same thing with my holiday cards this year (printed "custom" cards, not photo w/ caption). Every service except for ofoto and shutterfly were terrible. After much hand wringing, I chose ofoto.
I've been using http://www.fotki.com/ for the past several years. For $30/year you get unlimited storage (I have over 7000 photos, using 15 gb). In addition, you get easy, deep linking to original resolution photos. And most important (for me), there is ftp access for upload/download. I have a 1 line "wget" statement running in cron that each night automatically syncronizes every photo of mine @ fotki and stores a copy on my local machine. That way, if my hard disk crashes, I get back every photo from them. If they go out of business, I have a copy of everything. They also have photo printing, but I prefer the quality of other sites better (I've tried 10+!!)
The Nikon F lens mount (history) has been around since the early 1960's. The lenses he has are most likely usable on Nikon's current prosumer digital body, the D-100 (about $1,500).
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For the past two years I've preferred http://www.photoaccess.com/. At that time I sent the same photo to every online printing service I could find (ofoto, shutterfly, yahoo, snapfish, etc). Side by side it was amazing to see the differences. However, all good things must come to an end, as photoaccess was recently purchased by PhotoWorks (who I have never been a fan of). That being said, the pictures are still pretty good, though I think an updated personal "comparison" is now in order.
As an aside, I did the same thing with my holiday cards this year (printed "custom" cards, not photo w/ caption). Every service except for ofoto and shutterfly were terrible. After much hand wringing, I chose ofoto.
wget -T 120 -m -c -P /tmp/photos ftp://USERNAME:PASSWORD@ftp.fotki.com/
I've been using http://www.fotki.com/ for the past several years. For $30/year you get unlimited storage (I have over 7000 photos, using 15 gb). In addition, you get easy, deep linking to original resolution photos. And most important (for me), there is ftp access for upload/download. I have a 1 line "wget" statement running in cron that each night automatically syncronizes every photo of mine @ fotki and stores a copy on my local machine. That way, if my hard disk crashes, I get back every photo from them. If they go out of business, I have a copy of everything. They also have photo printing, but I prefer the quality of other sites better (I've tried 10+!!)
The Nikon F lens mount (history) has been around since the early 1960's. The lenses he has are most likely usable on Nikon's current prosumer digital body, the D-100 (about $1,500).