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I'll take one with my digital tonight, as a huge bmp. White separator strips
are currently off my modules, so it should look stock.

Dave Bradley
Principal Software Engineer
Engineering Animation, Inc.
daveb@...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tkacs, Ken [mailto:ken.tkacs@...]
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 10:18 AM
> To: 'MOTM Forum All'
> Subject: [motm] Urgent Request for Gear Photos
>
>
>
> Calling all cars:
>
> We are currently putting together an advertisement for Synthesis
> Technology
> that will appear in several major music publications. The ad is laid out,
> but we need a really good photo of some modules to finish it up.
>
> This photo needs to be high resolution and we need it pretty much
> *tomorrow*
> to meet deadlines. If you are able to snap a good photo and get
> it into our
> hands in this timeframe, please let Paul and I know via private email.
>
> The photo needs to yell "MODULAR!" at a glance.
>
> It needs to be a fairly close shot of some modules, 2 rows high by five
> wide, roughly, is a good area to frame, but use your judgment. We would
> particularly like to highlight VCOs in the picture, if possible. A few
> patchcords would help show this system 'in action,' but not so many that
> they obscure the modules or cast too many complex & distracting shadows.
>
> The photo needs to be very high resolution, as the demands of print
> resolution are an order of magnitude greater than for web/CRT. Either a
> high-end digital camera, or a 35mm photo scanned at high resolution may do
> the job.
>
> (I myself have the use of a pretty nice digital camera, but still find it
> difficult to take a clear shot of these modules because of the contrast
> between the small, fine white writing on the overwhelmingly black
> panels...
> the tricky contrast and lighting conditions wreak havoc with the camera's
> pickup, apparently.)
>
> If sending the photo electronically, it needs to be uncompressed, or at
> least compressed with a non-lossy compression scheme. This means no JPeG
> files. TIFF is ideal, and TIFF using LZW compression is fine, too (LZW is
> non-lossy, but you may find that it doesn't help photographic images much,
> and sometimes makes them bigger... if you can, try both ways and see which
> is smallest, but *quality* is the chief concern here). GIF files
> also use a
> non-lossy compression scheme, but are limited to 256 colors/shades. Now,
> normally that causes a 'solarized' look in photographic images, but this
> could be acceptable if you first convert your image/scan to
> grayscale (using
> PhotoShop or whatever) since the final will be monochrome anyway.
> Again, see
> if using GIF helps or hurts file size (since GIF uses an LZW compression
> scheme, too, which is the same method used for 'zipping' a file with
> WinZip).
>
> I can do final cropping and retouching on the image, so when it
> doubt, take
> it a little 'wide' to give me some swing room.
>
> My email system doesn't limit attachment sizes, and I have a full
> T-1 on my
> end, so the size of the file isn't an issue on my end.
>
> If you have any questions, technical or otherwise, please email me. Thanks
> in advance for any help with this.
>
>
>
>
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