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Subject: [Leica] Proposal: Large Print Exchange
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:31:45 -0700
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i am on board for 13 x 19 Mark
On Mar 23, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Richard Man wrote:

> Actually, there is no technical reason why we can't do that...
> 
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
> gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> I would rather have a 19"x13" proper Print Exchange - which I would be 
>> very
>> interested in.
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>> 
>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Richard Man <richard at 
>> richardmanphoto.com
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> How often do you hear people say, the proof making a print and an 8x10
>>> print is pretty small to see anything?
>>> 
>>> Wouldn't you like a see a big print from (M9, D700, X100, 4x5 etc.)?
>>> 
>>> How about this proposal: in this group, everyone makes one large print,
>> at
>>> least 13x19, may be 17x22. Darkroom printer may use 16x20 etc.
>>> 
>>> Feel free to watermark on the edge and heck, write in giant letters on
>> the
>>> back that says, "Property of XYZ. I will send my puppies to nip at you if
>>> you steal it.' Heck, tear off a corner if you are paranoid. Whatever.
>>> 
>>> Everyone sends the copy to the Coordinator.
>>> 
>>> The Coordinator gathers all the prints and after a week, forward it to
>> the
>>> first person in line, 2 weeks later, it gets send to the next person and
>> so
>>> on and back to the Coordinator. The last person keeps their own print.
>>> 
>>> The Coordinator then sends the prints back to each person.
>>> 
>>> So the cost is one mailing to the Coordinator, one mailing to the next
>>> person in line, and one mailing back to the sender, and the purchase of a
>>> mailing tube. This should be less than $40. We will equalize the cost so
>>> the oversea will not get penalized.
>>> 
>>> In fact, the Coordinator may pre-purchase postage and make labels for all
>>> the trips and include it with the package.
>>> 
>>> Of course there is a chance that the prints may get lost, so may be
>> tearing
>>> off the corner and marking it on the back is appropriate.
>>> 
>>> Any takers?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>>> 
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>> 
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> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> 
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