Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually, there is no technical reason why we can't do that... On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote: > I would rather have a 19"x13" proper Print Exchange - which I would be very > interested in. > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Richard Man <richard at > richardmanphoto.com > >wrote: > > > How often do you hear people say, the proof making a print and an 8x10 > > print is pretty small to see anything? > > > > Wouldn't you like a see a big print from (M9, D700, X100, 4x5 etc.)? > > > > How about this proposal: in this group, everyone makes one large print, > at > > least 13x19, may be 17x22. Darkroom printer may use 16x20 etc. > > > > Feel free to watermark on the edge and heck, write in giant letters on > the > > back that says, "Property of XYZ. I will send my puppies to nip at you if > > you steal it.' Heck, tear off a corner if you are paranoid. Whatever. > > > > Everyone sends the copy to the Coordinator. > > > > The Coordinator gathers all the prints and after a week, forward it to > the > > first person in line, 2 weeks later, it gets send to the next person and > so > > on and back to the Coordinator. The last person keeps their own print. > > > > The Coordinator then sends the prints back to each person. > > > > So the cost is one mailing to the Coordinator, one mailing to the next > > person in line, and one mailing back to the sender, and the purchase of a > > mailing tube. This should be less than $40. We will equalize the cost so > > the oversea will not get penalized. > > > > In fact, the Coordinator may pre-purchase postage and make labels for all > > the trips and include it with the package. > > > > Of course there is a chance that the prints may get lost, so may be > tearing > > off the corner and marking it on the back is appropriate. > > > > Any takers? > > > > -- > > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>