Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Luis, I would agree with you, the quality of the diver is not reither up to screen standards or other print standards. In some plaves the B&W is good in mine. I wonder if that is due to the uase of differing print facilities? Peter Dzwig Luis Ripoll wrote: > Henning, > > In my opinion the quality is good, but it not arrives to the excellence, as > I expect and I have for my other Photography books. B&W is not a strong > B&W, > and i.e. I've see in better quality in other books the Ted's picture of the > Barcelona Oimpic games. > > Even so I'm very happy with the Book and the Jim's work. > > Saludos desde Barcelona > Luis > > -----Mensaje original----- > De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org] En nombre de > Henning Wulff > Enviado el: s?bado, 20 de enero de 2007 0:45 > Para: Leica Users Group > Asunto: Re: [Leica] LUG 2006 YEARBOOK RECEIVED > > At 11:37 PM +0100 1/19/07, Luis Ripoll wrote: >> Congratulations Jim for your great idea, your work and this excellent >> book, congratulations too all the Luggers, it's very nice to find there >> all our Lugger friends, I'm only two years on the Lug, but it seems to >> me that I know everyone from many years! >> >> Just a question, I find that B&W pictures has a slight magenta tone, >> why it can't be really B&W? >> >> A kiss to all >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/0611-08w.jpg.html >> >> Saludos desde Barcelona >> Luis > > This morning Tom Abrahamsson and I were discussing an aspect of this over > coffee. > > Both our books were naturally printed at the same facility in Seattle, WA. > We assume that the printing facilities are given a specification by > blurb.com regarding printing type, paper, binding, inks, tolerances etc. > > It would be extremely interesting to see books printed by different > companies, and how much variation there is in the perceived quality. > > We're delighted with ours, and I haven't seen any colour cast on the B&W > prints. In fact, the quality of the colour and B&W images are all pretty > much equally good, which is quite an achievement, and is often not the > case. >