Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A decent full page picture on a magazine page printed in offset in 175 lpi aquires a minimum 300 dpi file about 40 mb I print all my books at minimum 200 lpi so my files comes out best at 400 dpi giving filesizes of about 70 mb for a full page 24 x 32 cm for 13 x 19 wich is the same as a spread in a large art book the file size has to be about 150 MB There is a huge difference between newspaper picture quality and inkjet quality compared to the filesize that is used in offset CMYK printing cheers Ruben ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:31 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] OT: A little history > What publication runs 13x19s? The problem with any image that big that > isn't on the wall is that you can't look at it from the proper viewing > distance. That's one of my complaints - OT - about Nachtwey's magnum > opus, Inferno. It's truly amazing work, but many of the images are too > damn big to be looked at as one normally looks at a book. That may have > been his idea, but I don't know that it really works. > > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of > Feli > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 2:27 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: A little history > > > > On Jan 25, 2005, at 11:15 AM, B. D. Colen wrote: > >> A 200 dpi file will produce a beautiful 13x19 - I've done it. But the >> real issue of "obsolescence" has more to do with the compulsion of >> people who are worried that someone, somewhere, has a bigger one than >> they do, than it has to do with need. There are plenty of cameras out >> there now that should keep some of us happy into the next decade. >> > > True, but does anyone know what dpi publications demand for something > that big? I know that a Lightjet takes either 150 or 300 dpi. > > feli > ________________________________________________________ > feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 > www.elanphotos.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