Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There is another aspect: Cost. It cost a LOT less money to print in one color? All the best from Perpignan! Tarek ------------------------------------------------- Tarek Charara <http://www.tarekcharara.com> NO ARCHIVE Le 6 janv. 2011 ? 17:19, Lawrence Zeitlin a ?crit : > Mark comments: > > "I did walk into my apartment building last night and there was a newspaper > > on the floor in the mail area and the cover shot was black and white. It > > was the NY Times. So people are still seeing breaking news in black and > > white." > >> From what I understand of the newspaper business, there is no particular > merit in B&W other than convenience. Editors choose photos and configure > the > front page to sell papers. In the UK it is either nude cuties, or a scandal > involving the Royal family. In the U.S. it is either a horrendous murder or > unexpected sports or political results. Back in the day B&W was the > quickest > (and only) way to get a picture on the front page while the news was hot. > During my brief tenure as a photog for the Boston Globe we would snap a 4x5 > photo of a spectacular final quarter goal in a Celtics basketball game, > soup > it in a dip tank on the way to the office in a taxi, pass the wet negative > to the Editor who cut it to size with a scissors, run it down to the > engraving room elves who had a halftone plate on the press within 10 > minutes. The newsboys were hawking papers showing the winning goal as the > fans filed out of the Boston Garden. It took only 30 minutes from taking > the > picture to getting the paper on the streets. It would have been impossible > with the color processes available in the 50s. I don't know much about > today's digital technology but printing and distributing a newspaper still > takes time. Of course it could be done in an instant on the internet. > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information