Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I saw the Gallery at the Calumet at 21st St... it was... interesting and the prints were large!!! On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>wrote: > "Appropriately" for WHAT is the center of the issue and someone who's > showing their prints to a gallery owner or having a show in that gallery is > not going to go to Costco to have their prints done. The very idea of it is > comical. Its like a one liner. > Yes the way many people print on their printers now rivals machine prints > with the profiles. > Digital does change a few things. > I was at Calumet this week and a guy was showing his prints off this laptop > to the head guy they have a large gallery upstairs. It looked like he'd > gotten the show and the basis of his jpegs on his laptop and was being > explained the details of publicity and so on. > The whole ideal of "craft" or how good a printer he might be was in the > equation. That's because we're all using the same profiles and > Spiders I guess. > I think there are a few people out there who just like they'd done in the > darkroom go back and forth with their prints critically not already working > on the next one before the previous one is out of the machine. > I used to take more responsibly for Xerox copies than people do now with > their inkjets. > There was a "sharpness" button on the schools Xerox. You had to decide if > you were going to press it or not. And it made a big difference and you'd > not want to press it if it didn't need it. > -- > Mark R. > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > From: Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:38:07 -0700 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] How low does pigment go? > > > > Well, don't be so snarky about Costco, Mark. Yeah, they're big and so > they > > can't do anything good. > > > > BUT, Costco does color-profile and you can go on-line to find your local > store > > and determine which printing technologies they offer and which papers so > you > > can prepare your images appropriately. > > > > Here's a link: > > > > <http://www.drycreekphoto.com/icc/> > > > > I recently went to an exhibition at the US Bicycle Hall of Fame where all > the > > images were printed by (gasp) Costco . . . and they looked damn good. I > was > > quite surprised when I learned where they were printed. > > > > Adam > > > > On Oct 25, 2011, at 8:31 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > >> Adorama is a camera store. > >> Costco is a mega store or some kind. > >> > >> If the yellow pages still existed they'd not be in the same section with > >> Custom Printers. Those are people who work in a small place that does > mainly > >> that. Often just one person who does mainly that. > >> > >> -- > >> Mark R. > >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > >> > >> > >>> From: Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:03:40 -0700 > >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] How low does pigment go? > >>> > >>> Yes, I should have said, "..like Adorama or other similar outfit." > Heck, I > >>> know some people who rely on Costco!!! > >>> > >>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Shutterfly does a pretty nice job too. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> -- > >>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>