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Subject: [Leica] How low does pigment go?
From: richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:55:45 -0700
References: <0890403E-A2F9-4FFC-9BBC-C395AB944B13@mac.com> <CACE6C86.15FCA%mark@rabinergroup.com>

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>
> >>>
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-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>


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