Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Help printing scanned Leica negatives!
From: Frank Conley <frankconley@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:06:44 -0700 (PDT)

Not to start something off topic, but I fail to follow. Printing a
scanned negative onto an inkjet printer is similar to projecting a
slide onto a textured ceiling. They key here is the outpost medium. The
garbage comes in the "out" part.


- --- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:
> The irony of using a Leica camera and lens to expose
> a negative, and
> then use an ink-jet printer to make the print!  :)
> 
> --
> What irony? The better the lens, the better the neg.
> The better the neg, the
> better the scan. The better the scan, the better the
> output. Isn't that
> essentially the photo corollary of garbage in,
> garbage out?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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