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Subject: [Leica] LUG Yearbook 2009 - How is the Printing?
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 15:57:31 -0800
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On Jan 8, 2010, at 3:46 PM, Wayne Serrano wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> Thank you! I appreciate your checking them out for me.  Both images were 
> taken by my self-defense M6 and 28 Summicron.



what a story,


I think it was a close one,


Steve


> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Jan 8, 2010 6:37 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Yearbook 2009 - How is the Printing?
>> 
>> 
>> On Jan 8, 2010, at 8:02 AM, Wayne Serrano wrote:
>> 
>>> I am now a bit concerned about how my images looked printed.  Should 
>>> have my copy next week.
>> 
>> 
>> your two wonderful images look fine to my eye,
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Wayne
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>
>>>> Sent: Jan 8, 2010 10:59 AM
>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Yearbook 2009 - How is the Printing?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Alan,
>>>> 
>>>> it seems to depend on the input data.
>>>> 
>>>> Some of the shots - where the balance between black and white is almost 
>>>> 1:1 - are printed perfectly - like Jayanands tiger (page 40).
>>>> 
>>>> My BW shot with a predominance of white and grey (page 39) appears 
>>>> quite 
>>>> a bit darker than I expected (about 1.5 stops).
>>>> 
>>>> A very few BW shots unfortunately look as if something went wrong in 
>>>> the 
>>>> printing process. (Marty Deveney's African shots (pp 122-123) and 
>>>> Nicolas Vigier's landscapes pp 194-195)
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe some kind of automatic gain correction (Auto-level) is being 
>>>> applied.
>>>> 
>>>> Was this the problem you had?
>>>> 
>>>> Perhaps this varies depending on the facility where it was printed - it 
>>>> would be interesting to find out - my copy was printed in Holland.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The blacks in my copy are really rich, saturated and very black.
>>>> 
>>>> Colour reproduction is very good throughout the book.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Douglas
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> Are the B&W pictures neutral?  I ordered a free Blurb book on Dec. 
>>>>> 28th as per their offer to make up for
>>>>> bad printing on some from last year (like mine).  I wanted to have a 
>>>>> second copy of "12 Leica Users", so
>>>>> this week, when it arrived, I compared it to the one printed in 2008 - 
>>>>> the new one is purple in the blacks, not black!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Last year it took them three tries to get me a good printing of  "19 
>>>>> Leica Users".
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm losing confidence in this company.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Alan
>>>>> 
>>>>> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
>>>>> UPAA POY 1978
>>>>> University Information Technology Services
>>>>> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>>>>> 
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