Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> As an architect who was trained using ruling pens, the rapidographs > provide inferior quality to ruling pens and require, comparatively, no > skill. Jeez, I was so glad to see the end of them. My high school drafting class required we use them to ink on vellum. Getting a clean line with no breaks or smudges was virtually impossible. The number of drawings I ruined as I attempted to get the last few lines is place is uncountable. That Senior drfating class was a whole year of frustration. Arghhh! I would have sold my soul to the devil to get my hands on a Rapidograph. Regards, Dick On Dec 15, 2009, at 8:02 AM, The Filippini Family- Matt & Blaise wrote: > It is, of course, all a matter of perspective. > > "Part of this is because the current technology does deliver "decent" > results with far less skill and effort. > Drawing a fine line of a specific width with a rapidograph pen > required skill..." > > As an architect who was trained using ruling pens, the rapidographs > provide inferior quality to ruling pens and require, comparatively, no > skill. For those unfamiliar, ruling pens consist of two bladed points, > adjustable to any width within their limits, which actually incise the > paper as they deliver the ink, resulting in a perfect line. One drop of > ink is loaded into the pen at a time. Mastering them to draw a line is > difficult, and preparing inked building plans with them is quite the > endeavor. > > Drawing a fine line with a ruling pen requires skill, the rapidograph > requires (relatively) no skill but provides "decent" results. > > Now, of course, we architects draw next to nothing except quick hand > sketches. All else is on the computer. Potentially perfect lines with > ease (but people still mess up). > > Matt > >> Also (hopefully) true Doug. >> And I've already responded how my efforts with the blacksmiths have >> developed positively. >> >> Yet, I see the trend moving towards "good enough" >> and away from "we need the best." >> >> The examples in the article: stock photos and footage for a couple >> dollars, voice overs for ten or thirty dollars. >> Back in the day - voice overs, photos, and footage meant royalties >> for the talent for the life the spot. >> >> Part of this is because the current technology does deliver "decent" >> results with far less skill and effort. >> Drawing a fine line of a specific width with a rapidograph pen >> required skill; >> as did reading light and color temperature meters and actually >> focusing a camera and knowing the DOF. >> Auto white point, and auto focus in a decent P&S camera or drawing a >> line in Illustrator - not so much. >> >> There will always be those who know and care about truly professional >> results. >> But I think that they're a smaller group than they once were. >> Four of my (once major) clients have moved design, copy writing and >> photography "in house;" >> where for previous decades that was all ad agency and free lance work. >> There are also many more people going after the work in every market. >> >> Again - no complaints - just the way it is (or appears to me). >> >> Regards, >> George Lottermoser >> george at imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com >> http://www.imagist.com/blog >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist >> >> On Dec 14, 2009, at 10:51 PM, Doug Herr wrote: >> >>> George I believe that in time this will be part of the up side. >>> Along with teaching in-house skills you can illustrate how much it >>> work takes to produce top-quality results. Not all in-house staff >>> (I bet very few) will be willing to put that much work into the >>> photos. You can show them that superior results are possible and >>> that you can deliver those results. Some day they will need your >>> superior photos. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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