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Subject: [Leica] Re: Images on Wetzlar and Leica Akademie Seminar are now online
From: "Robert Westcott" <gnomen@email.msn.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 12:44:14 +0100

Pascal
Delighted to hear from you.  I had a great time at the seminar.  Now I have
returned I am having some of my slides copied onto Kodak Photo CD.  Is there
anyway I could addd them to your web site so others can see them?
Trust all is well.  Happy photographing!!
Rob Westcott

- -----Original Message-----
From: Pascal <cyberdog@ibm.net>
To: Leica Users Group <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: 04 October 1998 20:15
Subject: Images on Wetzlar and Leica Akademie Seminar are now online


>Friends:
>
>I have spent many hours over the weekend tweaking my webpages and
>scanning/putting some more images in different sections.
>The layout of the index page has also been completely overhauled and now
>offers frames.
>
>And... I have added some images on the recent Leica Akademie Seminar in
>English language and the very cosy city of Wetzlar.
>These sections are not final as I am still awaiting development of some
>more films. I'll also notify the group when these sections have become
>final.
>
>On a technical note: the slides/negatives were scanned with the Nikon
>Super Coolscan LS-2000 film scanner at highest resolution using Adobe
>Photoshop 5.0 and the NikonScan 2.1 plug-in on my Macintosh. I did not
>touch them up with Photoshop (the ICE dust and scratches removal
>mechanism in the Nikon scanner is fantastic). They were then converted to
>JPEG's (quality 5 setting) at 150 dpi and 10 cm size for the longest side
>(depending on portrait or landscape format). Finally, in order to reduce
>them even more and to speed up download times, I have optimized them
>through Adobe ImageReady 1.0 which does this job automatically (you can
>preview the difference at different quality settings).
>If anyone of you wants a scan of an image of the Wetzlar/Leica Akademie
>sections at the full resolution size offered by the Nikon scanner, let me
>know.
>
>The pages can be visited on the following URL:
>
>http://members.xoom.com/cyberplace/
>
>Enjoy.
>Comments are always welcome.
>
>Best,
>
>Pascal
>Belgium
>
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