Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hoppy, I wish the Cezannes were in my den! However, they were in the Art Institute Museum in Chicago. Rather a good collection of Impressionism art work. If you ever come stateside do drop by the Getty, Art Institute, MOMA, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 5/28/06, G Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > > Thanks Don. I'm a little short of Cezannes here to compare. Apparently > they > are all in your den! ;-) > But a quick Google gave me the idea. > I'm thinking that Cezanne had a yellow/green filter stuck in the threads > of > his mental Summicron, way too many compression artifacts in his paintings > and his resolution was only suitable for web publication, maybe 72dpi. > Understandable since the hard drives were much smaller in those days. > > Cheers > Hoppy > Feeling irreverent today > > Message: 25 > Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 10:17:40 -0400 > From: "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Leica] scanning old Kodachromes > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Message-ID: <9b678e0605280717s18cdbe9u73f980e8af948418@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hoppy, > If your slide was stored in the dark then I would suspect little or no > change in the colors. I could tell you a tale about some Ektachrome > slides > that are about thirty years old and probably processed in the new to that > time washless E-6. The only color really available is red/magenta. > Possibly why I switched to Fujichrome so long ago. > > But color is such a personal decision. We all see color differently. I > was > reminded of this when I was wandering through a bunch of Cezanne paintings > with their strange palatte for skin tones. Did the color look to Cezanne > like skin tone? How much impressionism was there? > > Anyway, keep posting. > > Don > don.dory@gmail.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >