Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>> Darrell, It seems that is the magazine publishers decision to make, I have >> banned all digital images from my own monthly print magazine, they are too >> much trouble technically for print. > >Please explain this decision of yours and the meaning of ...too much trouble >technically for print. I have read, for several years and been told by the >stock agencies that represent my work and most users of my material, that >most consumer, technical, limited distribution magazines and similar print >publications are almost entirely produced using digital methods and files up >to the ink hitting the paper. Are you saying that the printer and the >printing process can distinguish between an original digital image file and >a digital image file produced from film? i was recently asked for an image by a magazine, which shall remain nameless, and i sent a digital. i received a note from the editor saying that they couldn't use the photo because it was digital. i responded "oh, i'm sorry, it's just a scan of a negative. i'll send you a print." i printed the digital on photo paper and sent it in and they published it, i'm assuming, under the belief that it was a print from color neg. methinks it's just a cadre of older photo-editors who are set in their ways, use the same pool of photographers over and over, and don't read the literature on new technolgies. they might also be used to seeing "consumer" digital images shot at 640x480 or some such. but i think that for much of print work even a paltry 2.1 megapixel image prints just fine. i recently had a 1600x1200 digital image printed 16x20 after a visit to Genuine Fractals and, although I noticed some unhappy weirdness in it, the client did not. for the convenience of my boss calling downstairs and saying "we need a shot of a high school student holding a pistol and we need it by noon" there's no substitute. now if i could just shoot my leica digital, i'd be in paradise. kc p.s. scratch that paradise bit, i'm already in paradise, the digital m would just be a perk. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html