Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:E. Adams & Vietnam Photo
From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk (David Morton)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 03:58 +0100 (BST)

Eric wrote:

> Unfortunately, too many word-herders end up getting the job of layout 
> at newspapers. They don't understand the issues involved in flopping 
> pictures (not to mention it's so obvious to the readers who were there 
> in most cases that they immediately know something's wrong - which 
> undermines the paper's credibility). 

It never fails to astonish me just *how* stupid some layout people can be 
about flipping pictures. I saw a poster on a station platform recently - 
for a furniture company IIRC - which showed a LEFT HANDED GRAND PIANO!