Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/08

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Subject: [Leica] Digital in the press [was: full time photogs]
From: "J. Gilbert Plantinga" <gilplant@hvc.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 19:08:25 -0400

And not a morning goes by that I don't notice that the photo editors at 
the NY Times go overboard with the unsharp mask in photoshop. Of course 
they'd do that if they were working with scans from film too,

Gilbert

On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 06:32  PM, B. D. Colen wrote:

> If you are shooting for
> newspapers or magazines, there is no longer an image quality advantage 
> in
> using Leica gear - if there ever was. Today's digital equipment is 
> producing
> images that when printed in newspapers and magazines cannot, even by the
> most dedicated Leicaholic, be distinguished from the best film/Leica 
> images,
> simply because the reproduction isn't good enough

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