Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alan, it seems to depend on the input data. Some of the shots - where the balance between black and white is almost 1:1 - are printed perfectly - like Jayanands tiger (page 40). My BW shot with a predominance of white and grey (page 39) appears quite a bit darker than I expected (about 1.5 stops). A very few BW shots unfortunately look as if something went wrong in the printing process. (Marty Deveney's African shots (pp 122-123) and Nicolas Vigier's landscapes pp 194-195) Maybe some kind of automatic gain correction (Auto-level) is being applied. Was this the problem you had? Perhaps this varies depending on the facility where it was printed - it would be interesting to find out - my copy was printed in Holland. The blacks in my copy are really rich, saturated and very black. Colour reproduction is very good throughout the book. Cheers Douglas > Are the B&W pictures neutral? I ordered a free Blurb book on Dec. 28th as > per their offer to make up for > bad printing on some from last year (like mine). I wanted to have a > second copy of "12 Leica Users", so > this week, when it arrived, I compared it to the one printed in 2008 - the > new one is purple in the blacks, not black! > > Last year it took them three tries to get me a good printing of "19 Leica > Users". > > I'm losing confidence in this company. > > Alan > > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer > UPAA POY 1978 > University Information Technology Services > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >