God to know. I was thinking of a book of my photos taken around Whitchurch-Stouffville and about 1/2 or more would be B&W.
Dave On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 12:55 AM, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given Marks high praise of the quality of his Blurb published book, my > positive response from what I had seen & the fact that others were > thinking of using them too, I'm posting this FYI. > > A local photographer I know had an exhibition in this years Foto Freo > "Photographic Festival". As part of his exibition he had 1 13x11" > hardcover sample printed by Blurb on display featuring all the photos > that made up the exhibit plus some extra shots (mostly B&W but some > colour). Those interested could order a copy of the book, when he > received enough orders he would order a run. I was impressed by both > the exhibition & the quality of the book, so I ordered one. > > Fast forward 5 weeks & the first order arrives. No good. All kinds of > colour shift anomilies (mostly cyan). After much to-ing & fro-ing > Blurb agreed to re print them. Well the reprints were just as bad, if > not worse. For those interested he has some samples & his side of the > story on the Blurb forum: > > <http://forums.blurb.com/forums/5/topics/3292#posts-15411> > > Now I have another book that was made through Blurb (8x10 softcover) & > the quality is outstanding. But the images in that book were almost > all colour, so maybe it's just a problem with monochrome images. Or > maybe it's a common problem that isn't as noticeable in colour photos. > I don't know. > > What I find most surprising was that Blurb said they couldn't see the > problem!!! > > Cheers, > > Dave > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
