Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/05/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, I have yet to see a digital print that matched the range of Ansel's. This is looking at gallery prints - they all seem to have issues when reproduced in a book, etc. The new Epson P800 is a 17" printer that is supposed to have significantly improved blacks (plus a 400-year print life, something we all need). If so I may buy one and keep my 3880 for color. Ken On 5/2/2015 6:21 PM, Peter Dzwig wrote: > I wonder about that too, Bob. I guess it may be due to the printers. > > So a question to LUGers, who is the best printer out there at the moment? > Obviously it depends on taste to some degreee, but I have been looking > back at > AA, HCB and others and I can't find a similar depth in modern digital > stuff by > and large. > > Thoughts? > > Peter > > On 02/05/2015 16:17, Robert Baron wrote: >> What you all say about his images and prints is valid for discussion, but >> I >> still can't figure out how he (or people working for him) can get such >> wide >> tonal ranges and I can't. >> >> Is it an optical illusion? >> >> --Bob >> >> On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:17 AM, Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I saw Genesis in Barcelona in January together with Lluis and my friend >>> Lars, and we too were somewhat disappointed. Partly there was the issue >>> of >>> the prints being overdone, but my main gripe was the lack of a coherent >>> theme?the exhibition is simply too big?and the distance to his subjects. >>> In >>> many cases, his approach to the people in the photographs is that of a >>> wildlife photographer. Compared to other major bodies of work by Salgado, >>> like ?Workers?, I found this one below his usual standard. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Nathan >>> >>> Nathan Wajsman >>> >>> Alicante, Spain >>> http://www.frozenlight.eu >>> http://www.greatpix.eu >>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >>> >>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator >>> >>> YNWA >>> >>>> On 02 May 2015, at 07:31, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I haven?t seen the film, nor had I heard of it until now but I did see >>> the ?Genesis? show in Barcelona last year and was simply stunned by the >>> imagery and quality of the printing. In my eyes the man is probably about >>> the best living photographer at the moment for so many reasons, and I saw >>> gazing at prints in sheer awe of his work. >>>> Gerry >>>> >>>> Gerry Walden >>>> 023 8046 3076 >>>> >>>>> On 2 May 2015, at 04:27, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> His flair for the dramatic is discussed in this long piece published in >>> The >>>>> Guardian in 2000: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2000/jun/10/photography.art >>>>> >>>>> I don't think a DVD of Salt of the Earth is available yet but I'd be >>>>> surprised if it didn't come out in due time. >>>>> >>>>> ====On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj < >>> jayanand at gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I would like to buy the DVD. I went to his "Genesis" show in London a >>>>>> couple of years ago, and was frankly underwhelmed by the prints - they >>> were >>>>>> totally over processed, and in my view, mangled beyond reason for >>> maximum >>>>>> drama. >>>>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>