[Leica] why can I not find a decent portfolio?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

You have to be careful with some of the PRAT books as some of them which
cost and look better on the outside have textured plastic over your print
pages which never went over well with the photographers or the art
directors. Smooth is what's really needed as to not get betwixt your images
and their eyeballs. So it's best to buy their stuff at site in hand. And you
make them open the plastic so you can see the pages.

I do have a friend in Portland doing high end shooting who went a route he
says many of those guys are going now where there is no plastic he had his
prints scored and punched and you flip thought the prints themselves with no
plastic around them.
I'm going to have to go that route. I've had it with plastic covered prints.
They are thick and stupid and stiff and shiny.

Or I stick to my box o prints - a mixed bag.
Too big o deal to flip though.

I love my paper.  I want everyone too. Its so classy and fine arty.
For people using semigloss RC imitation spread may as well plastic cover it.

Mark William Rabiner



> From: Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 21:53:09 -0400
> To: "lug at leica-users.org" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Conversation: why can i not find a decent portfolio?
> Subject: [Leica] why can i not find a decent portfolio?
> 
> i'm looking for an 11x14 portfolio now, since there seem to be no decent 
> ones
> in 11x17 and i'm having an awful time finding one that's not a) $120 or b) 
> an
> itoya 
> 
> why is it that meade can make a perfectly functional, useful and attractive
> three ring binder for $9 and pratt can't make anything approaching that
> quality for $50? i'd be happy with something with a moderately attractive
> surface that i can throw in my briefcase.
> 
> help me out people, what are you carrying your photos around in!?
> 
>