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Subject: [Leica] LUG Yearbook 2011 Replaced with a new number
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:15:01 -0600
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Absolutely - I seem to recall it includes a mandatory $500 contribution 
to some charity...but wait, I'll have to fact-check that - it is next in 
line with Newt.

Ken

On 1/7/2012 7:57 PM, R. Clayton McKee wrote:
> And for this we pay your outrageous fees... oh, wait. 
>
> n/m...
>
>
>   
> R. Clayton McKee
> PhotoJournalist
> from somewhere just south of somewhere else...
>
>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Jim Shulman<jshulman at judgecrater.com>
>> To: Leica Users Group<lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2012 7:35 PM
>> Subject: [Leica] LUG Yearbook 2011 Replaced with a new number
>>
>> To order copies, use this link:
>>
>> http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2889929
>>
>>
>>
>> A yearbook contributor alerted me to an egregious error I made with one of
>> his images; I?ve taken down the old version and uploaded a corrected
>> version of the book for all, which will now stand for subsequent orders.
>>
>>
>>
>> Some explanation may be in order: what I have not mentioned to the group,
>> until now, is that I made a serious error during the book?s assembly.
>> Rather than use the standard landscape format, I inadvertently left the
>> default format checked, which is the 7x7 square book.  I only noticed the
>> error on December 29th, but quickly realized that the smaller, square
>> format was not appropriate for the quality of images we collect.  Blurb
>> said not to worry; their software allowed me to switch formats in
>> mid-book.  Unfortunately, I?d been assembling the book with last year?s
>> software, which is not compatible with the format switch option.  That
>> meant that I had to reassemble the book from scratch, which took the 
>> better
>> part of a day.  I thought that everything was corrected, but unfortunately
>> I?d made a mistake with one image (when you load an image into the blurb
>> templates, it automatically sizes to fill the template area, and thus will
>> crop part of the picture.  I almost always correct this, to protect the
>> integrity of the original image, but in this one case during the reload I
>> goofed.)
>>
>>
>>
>> Glad to hear that the book?s meeting with considerable enthusiasm.  It?s
>> one of our better efforts!
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jim Shulman
>>
>> Wynnewood, PA
>>
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