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Subject: [Leica] Leicas and National Geographic
From: leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:31:31 -0600
References: <mailman.1463.1266339389.73134.lug@leica-users.org>, <4B7ABEC2.8326.4CAA09@leica.rcmckee.com>, <36172e5a1002161515q1396e336x9d1f2fc2185551f2@mail.gmail.com>

Oh, yeah.  Not the same puppy.   

The early version was, as you say, nothing but quick and dirty (I 
think probably high-speed machine) scans from the mags without any 
useful indexing or text features, whereas this version is all 
contained within an Adobe AIR applet.  

Demo at http://www.completenatgeo.com




Quoth the Geoff Hopkinson :

> Oh this is different to the original set that I knew about? It has
> more than
> a rudimentary search? The descriptions reads as though the photos
> are higher
> resolution now then? The original had a single non-editable lower
> resolution
> single jpg of each page, that is a scanned image of each page from
> memory.
>  Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> 
> 
> On 17 February 2010 07:50, R. Clayton McKee <leica at rcmckee.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Quoth the Geoff Hopkinson :
> >
> > > thousands of them. Imagine what a resource it would be if
> re-done in
> > > a modern way.
> >
> > You mean like this?
> >
> > http://shrunk.net/703656a4-shop.nationalgeographic.com
> >
> > --
> > R. Clayton McKee                           
> http://www.rcmckee.com
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> > The only guidebooks worth reading begin with the phrase
> >    "When you get to the end of the paved road, continue..."
> >
> >
> >
> 
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R. Clayton McKee                           http://www.rcmckee.com
Photojournalist                               rcmckee at rcmckee.com
P O Box 571900                           voice/fax   713/783-3502
Houston, TX 77257-1900                   cell phone #  on request



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