Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi i haven't got my issue yet but i've heard that the airplane article is one that is all digital - as in all the photos inside are taken with digital cameras, and is a National Geographic first. and not too long ago NatGeo is the only mag still insisting on film..... boon hwee - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark@rabinergroup.com> Subject: [Leica] National Geographic getting better > > This month has a Stealth fighter on the cover. They must have been BD on > reading the lug. > > I never saw airplanes on the cover of NA before! It was always people > and tree's! No high tech Popular Science stuff! (the other magazine I'd > get the last Thursday of every month growing up as a kid in the 60's)* > I think they've > got new people in there with a more viable modern approach to the whole > thing. It's become more viable. A genetically re-engeeered dinosaur now. Not > the stale relic it has started to look and read like. Not that anybody reads. > Did somebody say they were shying away from digital? I bet that rule is > coming to an end. > > One of the shots in there was of a new European jetliner flying over a city. > When you read the blurb they tell you that the "photograph" is computer generated. > In other words you find out that what you thought was "real" was not. > We never had that problem with their drawings! > That plane had not quite gotten off the ground yet! > Mixed feelings about that. Not sure such a thing is a common > journalistic tool. As a matter of fact i think it's not as it throws > doubt on all other "photographs's in the periodical. Which is a > periodical filled with photographs. Which are real and which are > memorex? A challenge we can do without. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html