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Re: [Digital BW] Lenswork Magazine

2001-10-10 by Jerry Olson

Anyone know where I could get a copy of an issue of Lenswork Magazine? 

Dalton's, Walden's, and Barnes and Noble don't carry it in North Dakota.

Jerry




editor@... wrote:
> 
> > But it's with the 'Fujix' prints that I have a problem, or at the
> very least, a comment.  I our experience the
> > Fujix process yields a very poor color print (monochrome or
> otherwise), with a very limited gamut, and I
> > consider this to be more photographic than inkjet.
> 
> I agree. It's only virtue for scanning is that it is more "continuous
> tone" than a bad injet print. The trick for scanning is to get a
> close to continuous tone as possible. I must add, however, that I
> think all of this is going away. Remember all the debate in the 1980s
> about 9-pin vs 24-pin dot matrix printers? Seems all rather silly now.
> 
> > And to take you analogy regarding the inkjet operator one step
> further, I also think the pre press/production
> > person at a magazine's end (not to say 'LensWork' specifically) is
> also extremely important, and
> > unfortunately, at most publications that is 'the weakest link'
> (again, I am not talking about LensWork...I
> > have never seen your publication).
> 
> Again, you are right. This is precisely why we print LensWork on a
> sheetfed press rather than a web press and why I personally conduct
> the press checks myself on every issue. As far as I know, we are the
> only photography magazine that prints on a sheetfed press and I know
> from talking with the other publishers that they don't press check. A
> good press operator is worth his/her weight in gold!
> 
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