Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Black and White Magazine
From: Darrell Jennings <darrell_jennings@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 18:02:11 -0700 (PDT)

Don, couldn't this problem be solved by submitting a
printed digital picture rather than the image file? 

- --- Don Dory <dorysrus@mindspring.com> wrote:
> I think the issue with an original digital file is
> the what you see is what
> you get.  With an original print or slide you have a
> reference standard for
> the digitization process.  With a pure digital file
> as original the magazine
> doesn't really have any idea what the image is
> supposed to look like.  In a
> controlled environment it works great but with
> unsolicited work being sent
> in the editors have no way of knowing what the
> picture is really supposed to
> look like.
> 
> Hang around a photofinishing counter for a little
> while and you will see
> what I mean.  "Why are all my pictures so yellow"
> Or, from a digital file,
> why is my picture blue, I took it in bright sun:
> with white balance set for
> tungsten.
> 
> Don
> dorysrus@mindspring.com
> 
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