Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] digital image manipulation
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 23:26:28 -0600

>Several  years  ago  an amateur photographer/full time firefighter won
>the Pulitzer and the news photographer that did a portrait of him left
>a  coke can in the photo. When this photo was printed in the paper the
>paper electronically removed the coke can.

Just to clarify what happened here. The photo editor said to the Scitex (10
years ago the ultimate digital imaging machine) operator "get rid of it."
Referring, of course, to the diet Coke can. 

He meant "Crop it out." 

But the Scitex operator heard "Do your magic." 

It wasn't noticed until too late. The Post Dispatch has taken a lot of
lumps over that one, and it was an innocent mistake. The Scitex operator
wasn't a journalist. Now he knows.
- -- 

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

Perspective is in the eye of the beholder.