Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > In book publishing, granted, the orginal prints must be excellent. But, >anyone who knows anything about commerical printing (ink & paper, not >photographic), knows a good printing house can make or break you. > True. Jeanloup Sieff recently passed away and a book by him appeared shortly before. There was thus plenty of reasons for French magazines to publish articles on him and picture by him. I guess they had all gotten exactly the same prints from the publisher or from his agent, as more or less the same pictures appeared everywhere. I was surprised how different a specific picture would look when printed in different magazines. Usually the were not cropped, but some were, often just a little to make a full page print fit a page. Incredible what difference just half an inch off the top of a full page photo in a makes - -- Christer Almqvist D-20255 Hamburg, Germany and/or F-50590 Regnéville-sur-Mer, France