Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I seem to recall that they were having problems with electronic reproduction rights from some of the photogs. Guess they got it figured out. Leo Wesson photographer?videographer leo at leowesson.com 817?733?9157 On Feb 16, 2010, at 5:31 PM, "R. Clayton McKee" <leica at rcmckee.com> wrote: > 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 >>> Photojournalist >> rcmckee at rcmckee.com >>> P O Box 571900 voice/fax >> 713/783-3502 >>> Houston, TX 77257-1900 cell number on request >>> The only guidebooks worth reading begin with the phrase >>> "When you get to the end of the paved road, continue..." >>> >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >> information > > -- > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information