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Re: [OM] IMG: 280 megapixels

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: 280 megapixels
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:12:49 -0500
Since 1976 only Little, Brown and Company have been authorized to 
reproduce Ansel Adams works.  That is supposedly based on the quality 
standards of their work.

Chuck Norcutt


On 1/19/2011 9:37 AM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> That's interesting. One of my many complaints about what I saw, not related
> to composition, was that the very expensive "vintage" prints were, well
> let's say it, FLAT. Changing tastes? Perhaps, but the photos in the book
> would have been reproduced by shooting photos of the original photos with a
> process camera on litho film through a halftone screen, giving an
> unavoidable boost in contrast.
>
>
>
> From: Brian Swale [mailto:bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:32 AM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: 280 megapixels
>
>
>
> Bill Pearce wrote
>>
>> Well, I do get out, and I?ve had the misfortune of seeing prints made by
>> the great Ansel, which were quite a disappointment as  well. The best I?ve
>> seen are ones by a friend who has taken an Epson and sacrificed it to B&W
>> printing by using sour colors of  black ink. The results are amazingly
>> good, but still have what I have seen as a loss of dmax, a characteristic
>> of either inkjet printing or the taste of people using inkjet printers.
>
> A short few years ago the Ansel Adams print exhibition came to
> Christchurch, and I saw it. I think it was his 100 best prints, or some
> such.
>
> Yes, it was great to see his work in the flesh.
>
> But I also have the book with the same prints, and to tell the truth, I like
> the
> book prints a whole lot better. Heresy or not.
>
> Brian Swale.
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