Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Many thanks about my snow scene pic. You are right about monitors and prints. I am ALWAYS disappointed by my lightjet prints after editing on a monitor. Even after soft proofing and trying to make adjustments for the reduced dynamic range, a print always seems disappointing after viewing on a high quality monitor. Remember the feeling of looking at well-exposed slide with a loupe and light table? cheers, Eric On 2/3/07, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote: > > On Feb 3, 2007, at 12:37 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > > > Eric: > > > >> http://tinyurl.com/2bh8y9 > > > > Way cool. Almost has an otherly world feel to it. Very nice. > > This is > > another time when I wish I were looking at a real print instead of a > > monitor. This should be hanging up somewhere. > > > > > While Eric's picture of snow covered woods would be nice as a print, > I feel that pictures of high contrast scenes are best viewed on a > quality monitor. The maximum contrast a print can deliver is about > 50:1, limited, of course by the reflectivity of the paper and the > maximum depth of black. The actual scene in the woods probably has a > contrast of 1000:1. If you have a bright monitor and view the picture > in a shaded room, you can get a visual contrast approaching the > original scene. It's the same phenomenon that makes projected color > slides look better than color prints. Either way, it's a great picture. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >