Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/31

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Subject: Re: brain dead
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 20:43:53 -0500

At 07:09 PM 31-03-97 EST, Ted wrote:
>Hi Alastair,
>
><<<I'm only sorry the shots are not as well reproduced as I would like. I'll
>probably have to get into Kodak Photo CD more often as my Nikon Coolscan and I
>are not yet "in-tune".>>>>>
>
>Hi Alastair, 
>
>One of the things I became acutely aware of when my book page was produced, the
>images aren't quite as good as they are in real life. And the lad producing the
>site is a real whiz bang at this kind of stuff and tweaked the highest quality
>he could from the scanned images. 
>
>When we looked at the images on a couple of different computers at differnt
>locations around the city, then it got real scary, as all computers may compute
>but they don't all reproduce the images identically in tones etc.  Why? I don't
>have a clue! :)

That's what I've discovered about my own web page.  I spent hours trying to
get each of my scanned images to look their best, only to discover that on
someone elses computer, they may look terrible.   I don't think that there's
much that you can do about it.

Dan C.