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November 19, 2023
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Is there any software available to open old Kodak Master and Pro Scan CDs and DVDs of scanned film?

  • November 19, 2023
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For many years before there were digital cameras, photographers were able to get low-cost digital scans of film by labs using Kodak Master Scans and Pro Scans.  Is there any software for accessing these old CDs and DVDs?  Master scans were used primarily on 35mm film, and were very low cost, but a lower resolution.  Pro Scans were at a higher resolution, and could be performed on 35mm, 2.25," and 4x5 film.

I am wondering if Adobe would make a plug-in for those old image disks, or if not, is there other software out there?

It's a little foggy, but I seem to remember that PS CS2 or CS3 used to have a .PCD converter.

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解決に役立った回答 Trevor.Dennis

Irfanview definitely used to have a plugin to read .PCD files.  I have no idea if it is still available.  Ifanview is free and really quite useful.  It can open Photoshop .PSD files for instance, so is a good tool for checking PSD files — but not a PSD document'ss layers, I suspect.

 

https://www.irfanview.com/

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Rob_Cullen
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November 20, 2023

@archfoto   You might find that the 'companion to XnView'  known as "XnConvert" will be a suitable tool.

(I use it to quickly convert .WEBP image files- In batch multiples also.)

https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/

XnConvert can recognise ~500 file types including .PCD.

 

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.3, Photoshop 27.5, ACR 18.3, Lightroom 9.3, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.3 .
archfoto作成者
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November 20, 2023

Hi Rob -

Thanks.  I will look into it.

Trevor.Dennis
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November 19, 2023

Irfanview definitely used to have a plugin to read .PCD files.  I have no idea if it is still available.  Ifanview is free and really quite useful.  It can open Photoshop .PSD files for instance, so is a good tool for checking PSD files — but not a PSD document'ss layers, I suspect.

 

https://www.irfanview.com/

Trevor.Dennis
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November 19, 2023

Most of the links I've found are from nearly 20 years ago, so I think you've got some work to do to find a working solution.  So I wish you luck.  Please let us know if you find an answer.

 

http://tedfelix.com/SupaSoft/PCDLib.html