[Leica] LUG Print Exchange January!!

[drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers)]

Mark,

I have an Agfa paper sampler packet from years ago. I bought it at a
camera flea market. It was old when I bought it. Maybe 50's era. 

It's a stack of prints in a small 5x7 box. I assume these were actual
prints because they are on actual Agfa papers -- the makes and grades of
the day. 

The prints appear to have been archival processed. I guess that's the
way things were done back then. Even though it was a marketing promo
with a short expected life they didn't cut corners to save a few
pennies. 

Every few months I pull out the box and look through it. It's a
different experience from looking through a book, although both are
enjoyable.

DaveR

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mark@rabinergroup.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 8:25 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] LUG Print Exchange January!!

I do think making a print and having a book made might have some vague
overlap but are two completely different topics.
When I like most people over the decades practicing photography want to
see
my latest picture I make a print of it.

People now can make make a digital file and never have to make a print.
They upload it to a gallery or to a service which makes a print or a
book.
Or any number of other things.
To me in a strong way it's a jpeg by any other name.

Getting a nicely designed packet with a stack of prints in it all made
in
different methods on different paper by different Rollei people, and
guess
what with Rollei cameras coincidently enough, was a nice experience.

It did not feel like getting a book in the mail.
Not even vaguely.
I don't think these two things overlap or otherwise threaten each other.

Books are nice but my "book" over the past 15 years has not been a book.
But a stack of fiber not RC prints in a box.
Before that I had a "book" of my best work.
People would flip through it.
I'd make sure the prints were in the right order and the pages were
fresh.
No one tried to order one.

Mark William Rabiner