Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/28

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Subject: [Leica] Captions
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:38:16 -0600
References: <C75EBD7C.5B1CC%mark@rabinergroup.com>

I think we best enter into this discussion
the difference between
caption
and
title

a captions serves to add relevant and/or useful (hopefully) information
a title serves to "name" the image

very different purposes

Regards,
George Lottermoser
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On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> My two pennorth,
>>
>> I think it all depends on what the pictures show - I can't really
>> imagine one of my (now quite numerous) town/city tours without  
>> captions
>> showing where all the shots were taken.
>>
>> The same applies to the captions of Doug Herr's bird shots telling us
>> what they are (paticularly when the Latin names are used so I can  
>> look
>> up what they are called over here in Germany - who knows when they  
>> might
>> turn up in a translation :-) )
>>
>> Cheers
>> Douglas
>
>
> Yes a simple dry description.  A couple of words.
> I see a lot of couple of words with number or letter.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
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