Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My first camera book was by Herbert Keppler (The Honeywell Pentax Way, from the mid-60's). And then my father surprised me with a copy of "The Family of Man" (recommended by my uncle Willard, a photographer). On Jun 28, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > Well I don't know I'm sitting there sipping a supposed Starbucks espresso > by > non Starbucks trained Barnes and Noble personal talking to the regulars > with > something in front of me? What is that something going to be? > A fresh translation of Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre? > Well if there's anything I like better than anything its magazines. > I may like them more than books. Or cameras. > If they had a magazine on Jean-Paul Sartre I'd maybe read it. > For me the printed page wins over pixels on my screen by a country mile > easily and every time. Copy in hand. Ink on paper. Halftone screen. CMYK > cyan, magenta, yellow, and key. turn the page. Rip out the magazine > subscription tag. > - if I find a nice article on the internet if I really want to read it I > print it out. I absorb much more from a printed page then my NEC Monitor. > Might be my particular brand of anti pixel dyslexia. > > The old days are gone with Cora Wright Kennedy and Bill Pierce and Jason > Schneider doing their monthly columns at Pop and Modern. Sint. Norman > Goldberg and Norman Rothschild. Arthur Goldsmith, Don Leavitt, Bob > Schwalberg, Edward Meyers, Jacob Deschin, Ed Farber, Howard Chapnick. > Herbert Keppler. > Those days are long gone. But I still love the photo mags. > Both Pop and Modern were mainly gadget mags but in the 70's they had > gravure > center pages. These pages looked much better than what was coming out of my > and my friends darkrooms. Better blacks. Better tones. They were a real > inspiration. But in content and printing. Those days are gone. > But then we got American Photographer which was really about photography > and photographers while Pop and Modern was about Cameras. > I read the first I issue cover to cover and ever issue since cover to > cover. > And pretty much everybody I hung out with did too. > But I no longer buy them all. Or subscribe, I buy very few. But have a new > one right next to my bed right now. Just like the good old days. > (he crosses room and gets it) > I see its the Pop Photog July issue: > "Shootout! Pro Compacts! > Big DSLR size sensors put amazing photo quality in your pocket P. 66 > Lab & Field Tests > Nikon Coolpix A and Ricoh GR." > Reading it in the Starbucks was not enough. > I had to bring it home and put it under my pillow. Absorb it over night. > > I found out about the new almost or just out Nikon Coolpix A and Ricoh GR > not from the internet but from this magazine last week. > Compact pocketable cameras with APS-C sized sensors. > Five of them. Two just out. The Sony NEX 1 full rame. in a side box in the > corner > > I shelled out real money and brought it home. > And it cost five bucks. > http://blog.netbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/five-bucks.jpg > > http://blog.leica-camera.com/photographers/interviews/jason-schneider-rennai > sance-man-on-a-motorcycle/ > > Or > http://tinyurl.com/7xth4e5 > > On 6/28/13 4:53 PM, "Jim Shulman" <jshulman at judgecrater.com> wrote: > >> Good reason why--who needs 'em anymore? >> Want a review of the latest equipment? Count the bloggers/writers who >> post them for free. >> Or go to your favorite discussion board and see what's new and exciting. >> Want to see pictures of the latest gear? Free images abound on the web. >> Want information faster than, say, once a month? Again, the web. >> >> Sure, they're fun while killing time at (one of the remaining, though >> likely not for long) book superstores. And it's nice to see some of our >> friends, such as Tina, featured in one or another. >> >> But otherwise, who cares? >> >> Jim >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org >> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshulman=judgecrater.com at leica-users.org] On >> Behalf Of >> Mark Rabiner >> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 4:47 PM >> To: Leica Users Group >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Sony RX1 Rangefinder Magazine >> >> The June 2013 Insight Marketing issue of the paper Rangefinder Magazine >> which I tend to look at over espressos at the Barnes and Noble caf? is out >> with a shot on the cover of a fashion model type in a plane with a life >> magazine on her lap and kerchief on her head. Highly styled. On very >> glossy stock. >> The very well printed cover was shot with the Sony Rx1 full frame But >> when you read the article inside you find most the shots of the shoot were >> done with a typical current Nikon DSLR. And you get a side by side >> comparison. Only its top to bottom on the page. They really seem to match >> up psychologically human nature kind of thing we may be rooting for the >> Sony. >> Looking at the cover of the paper in hand printed copy one could easily >> belive it was medium format digital or film. I may have... >> Although the quality of the printing and paper is top notch we'd really >> want to be seeing much larger prints to gee a real idea of what these >> sensors are outputting. But this example is very real world. >> Below I found the digital issue an urls. >> But try to see in in the magazine rack. >> I still read photo magazines. >> Pretty much all of them >> Pretty much cover to cover. >> Pretty much since I was 12 in 1963. >> You don't hear much about the photo magazines on the lists. Don't know >> why. >> >> >> http://www.rangefinderonline.com/features/profiles/June-2013-Insight-7572. >> sh >> tml >> http://tinyurl.com/nudal96 >> >> >> http://www.rangefinderonline.com/index.shtml >> >> >> On 6/28/13 11:20 AM, "Doug Herr" <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: >> >> >> -- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > > > -- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information