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Subject: [Leica] OT: A little history
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Jan 26 11:19:13 2005

My mistake - obviously 13x 19 in a double truck translates to 9.5 x 13
for the overall book size, which is not that large. And I am aware that
there are totally different requirements for newspaper and book
reproduction. ;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Ruben
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 5:18 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: A little history


A decent full page picture on a magazine page printed in offset  in 175
lpi 
aquires a minimum 300 dpi file about 40 mb
I print all my books at minimum 200 lpi so my files comes out best at
400 
dpi giving filesizes of about 70 mb for a full page 24 x 32 cm for 13 x
19 wich is the same as a spread in a large art book the file size 
has to be about 150 MB
There is a huge difference between newspaper picture quality and inkjet 
quality compared to the filesize that is used in offset CMYK printing
cheers Ruben
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:31 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] OT: A little history


> What publication runs 13x19s? The problem with any image that big that

> isn't on the wall is that you can't look at it from the proper viewing

> distance. That's one of my complaints - OT - about Nachtwey's magnum 
> opus, Inferno. It's truly amazing work, but many of the images are too

> damn big to be looked at as one normally looks at a book. That may 
> have been his idea, but I don't know that it really works.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf 
> Of Feli
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 2:27 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: A little history
>
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2005, at 11:15 AM, B. D. Colen wrote:
>
>> A 200 dpi file will produce a beautiful 13x19 - I've done it. But the

>> real issue of "obsolescence" has more to do with the compulsion of 
>> people who are worried that someone, somewhere, has a bigger one than

>> they do, than it has to do with need. There are plenty of cameras out

>> there now that should keep some of us happy into the next decade.
>>
>
> True, but does anyone know what dpi publications demand for something 
> that big? I know that a Lightjet takes either 150 or 300 dpi.
>
> feli
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