Tim Bray wrote:
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:04 PM, David Savage <[email protected]> wrote:
It's not a trick question. When viewing photographs do you prefer to
look at pictures on a monitor or in print?
I like print, but in general I would probably pick a monitor. I think
the reason is this: my Dad was an avid slide photographer and we used
to have family slide-shows on a regular basis, so there's a warm spot
in my mind for sitting down looking at a glowing picture presented on
a vertically-aligned surface.
I like a monitor for review, but a photograph on paper really isn't even
the same "medium" (warning: tautology) as the same photo on a monitor.
Paper has "corporeal existence" for want of a better term. At best, an
image on a monitor qualifies as ephemeral.
And what monitor, for that matter? As I sit here, I do my primary work
and all of my photo editing on a Samsung 955DF CRT monitor that
apparently came out of the box calibrated to match my Epson 820 printer
(or maybe I'm just color blind). To my right is a good quality LG LCD
monitor. Same photo on one versus the other? Almost not the same photo
... the entire "feel" is different.
Of course, the same arguments apply to the printed form. What paper?
What ink? What printer? What settings? However, regardless of any of
those variables, it's not really comparable to viewing the same photo on
a monitor. If nothing else, you've got the active versus passive,
emission versus reflection thing going.
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Thanks,
DougF (KG4LMZ)
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