Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Project Jerusalem, or the f/1.4 school of landscape
From: John Brownlow <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 23:35:59 +0100

on 5/6/00 8:54 am, Bernard at 4829.g23@g23.relcom.ru wrote:

>>> Frankly, I find these impossibly dark--which may be a question of gamma,
>>> but, then, why should a viewer have to fiddle with his/her monitor to look
>>> at your images?
>> 
>> Well, you tell me how you keep viewers on mac, windows 98, windows 2000, with
>> or without colorsync, happy? Gammas varying between 1.8 and 2.2... with
>> low-key images there is simply no way to keep everyone happy.
> 
> Getting defensive won't really help, will it now. There's a million sites out
> there, which do not have the problems that yours does, so it must have
> something
> to do with you, rather than people's awkward wishes, technical
> incompatibility,
> etc. If you want people to view your pictures (that's what you're inviting
> people to do, right?!), then fix the problem.
> 
> 
>> crank up the brightness, if you're that concerned.
> 
> Let's try again: *you* should be concerned, because it's your show and your
> reputation. If someone takes the time to warn you that something's wrong (and
> yes, something IS wrong), then they're just being nice to you, whether you
> want
> to acknowledge that or not.

Yes, but Bernard, you're missing a key point. I was drunk when I wrote that.

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Johnny Deadman

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