Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well I don't know I'm sitting there sipping a supposed Starbucks espresso by non Starbucks trained Barnes and Noble personal talking to the regulars with something in front of me? What is that something going to be? A fresh translation of Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre? Well if there's anything I like better than anything its magazines. I may like them more than books. Or cameras. If they had a magazine on Jean-Paul Sartre I'd maybe read it. For me the printed page wins over pixels on my screen by a country mile easily and every time. Copy in hand. Ink on paper. Halftone screen. CMYK cyan, magenta, yellow, and key. turn the page. Rip out the magazine subscription tag. - if I find a nice article on the internet if I really want to read it I print it out. I absorb much more from a printed page then my NEC Monitor. Might be my particular brand of anti pixel dyslexia. The old days are gone with Cora Wright Kennedy and Bill Pierce and Jason Schneider doing their monthly columns at Pop and Modern. Sint. Norman Goldberg and Norman Rothschild. Arthur Goldsmith, Don Leavitt, Bob Schwalberg, Edward Meyers, Jacob Deschin, Ed Farber, Howard Chapnick. Herbert Keppler. Those days are long gone. But I still love the photo mags. Both Pop and Modern were mainly gadget mags but in the 70's they had gravure center pages. These pages looked much better than what was coming out of my and my friends darkrooms. Better blacks. Better tones. They were a real inspiration. But in content and printing. Those days are gone. But then we got American Photographer which was really about photography and photographers while Pop and Modern was about Cameras. I read the first I issue cover to cover and ever issue since cover to cover. And pretty much everybody I hung out with did too. But I no longer buy them all. Or subscribe, I buy very few. But have a new one right next to my bed right now. Just like the good old days. (he crosses room and gets it) I see its the Pop Photog July issue: "Shootout! Pro Compacts! Big DSLR size sensors put amazing photo quality in your pocket P. 66 Lab & Field Tests Nikon Coolpix A and Ricoh GR." Reading it in the Starbucks was not enough. I had to bring it home and put it under my pillow. Absorb it over night. I found out about the new almost or just out Nikon Coolpix A and Ricoh GR not from the internet but from this magazine last week. Compact pocketable cameras with APS-C sized sensors. Five of them. Two just out. The Sony NEX 1 full rame. in a side box in the corner I shelled out real money and brought it home. And it cost five bucks. http://blog.netbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/five-bucks.jpg http://blog.leica-camera.com/photographers/interviews/jason-schneider-rennai sance-man-on-a-motorcycle/ Or http://tinyurl.com/7xth4e5 On 6/28/13 4:53 PM, "Jim Shulman" <jshulman at judgecrater.com> wrote: > Good reason why--who needs 'em anymore? > Want a review of the latest equipment? Count the bloggers/writers who > post them for free. > Or go to your favorite discussion board and see what's new and exciting. > Want to see pictures of the latest gear? Free images abound on the web. > Want information faster than, say, once a month? Again, the web. > > Sure, they're fun while killing time at (one of the remaining, though > likely not for long) book superstores. And it's nice to see some of our > friends, such as Tina, featured in one or another. > > But otherwise, who cares? > > Jim > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] On Behalf > Of > Mark Rabiner > Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 4:47 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] Sony RX1 Rangefinder Magazine > > The June 2013 Insight Marketing issue of the paper Rangefinder Magazine > which I tend to look at over espressos at the Barnes and Noble caf? is out > with a shot on the cover of a fashion model type in a plane with a life > magazine on her lap and kerchief on her head. Highly styled. On very > glossy stock. > The very well printed cover was shot with the Sony Rx1 full frame But > when you read the article inside you find most the shots of the shoot were > done with a typical current Nikon DSLR. And you get a side by side > comparison. Only its top to bottom on the page. They really seem to match > up psychologically human nature kind of thing we may be rooting for the > Sony. > Looking at the cover of the paper in hand printed copy one could easily > belive it was medium format digital or film. I may have... > Although the quality of the printing and paper is top notch we'd really > want to be seeing much larger prints to gee a real idea of what these > sensors are outputting. But this example is very real world. > Below I found the digital issue an urls. > But try to see in in the magazine rack. > I still read photo magazines. > Pretty much all of them > Pretty much cover to cover. > Pretty much since I was 12 in 1963. > You don't hear much about the photo magazines on the lists. Don't know > why. > > > http://www.rangefinderonline.com/features/profiles/June-2013-Insight-7572. > sh > tml > http://tinyurl.com/nudal96 > > > http://www.rangefinderonline.com/index.shtml > > > On 6/28/13 11:20 AM, "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/