Club 30's "Kill the Boredom Demon" Jive Pad, 33rd Edition

last SG · 2007-04-03T09:28:09+00:00

I'll save a sachet for you Hisk!!! And I'll add more vile stuff in it and you drink it!

the Bear SG

hmm.. your graphic designer background is evident Laughing

anyway, have a friend who is asking if anyone who might want to work marketing, no experience necessary, would be good if have designing background..

know anyone who wants a job? Wink

kopiosatu SG

mine is already calibrated to the shop's

its not the sharpness of the softcopy.
its the print itself.

the lines are not clean.
the output is blotchy / murky

choco B SG

Thank goodness for the home front... when all else fails you know there is an SO to cry on LOL
I bought an Ariston oven btw and have made 2 plates lasagne to date Laughing
I'm taking leave on Thursday to observe Qing Ming
Have too much work to really enjoy the long and short of work-weeks... just hanging on and hoping this will pass Smile

av98m SG

That's EXACTLY my problem Mad

and it doesn't matter if its 4R or S8R, same problem Mad

weird thing is , other pictures taken on the same day at the same place with the same camera will turn out fine. there will just be a few that can never turn out right!! Crying or Very sad

kopiosatu SG

i don't have a scanner~

kopiosatu SG

i'll be suffering the most, i gotta give 300 prints!

even the most 'uuntouched' table shots turned out 'blur'

sibeh rubbish leh. Mad

av98m SG

Kopi, this is why I was thinking of getting my own printer to do my own printing.

kopiosatu SG

sorry i need to requote.

factory print is CMYK

photo lab print is RGB.

tare SG

Embarassed

now tat i've been writing correspondences for a yr.. has my english improved then? Laughing

hmm.... my era friends all have MANY yrs of experience leh Razz

kopiosatu SG

i want to print on my own in future.
but not bloody 300 photos!

to avoid printing that much i have to jump away from the 'mass printing' industry like weddings.

the Bear SG

*peers into the future and sees both kopi and av reverting to film*

Laughing

talking about film, i wonder how the repairs of the little colora is coming along..

av98m SG

and to repeat like an old lady, the problem here is NOT color. Laughing

its detail/texture/transitions Confused

Wanda SG

Right on about the SO. Mr. Green Waa...from hardly cook to making lasagne! Woot! That's quite a bit of work! Must be yummy. Very Happy

I believe the HK-gers get Thur off as a public holiday for Qing Ming. They have the most no. of public holidays in Asia, plus unofficial half-days off for mooncake festival, Dong Ji (winter festival), etc. *Sigh...*

kopiosatu SG

even the magazines have better results than the bloody 4Rs!!!! Mad

the Bear SG

well, if they need a job.. Laughing

tare SG

*lub chin* tat i also dunnoe le... have u check with joho?

btw i last time only do commerical prints, no do photo lab prints Laughing

kopiosatu SG

nevermind, i'm going to do test shots now.

will be gone the whole day.

i'll be back with my findings.

av98m SG

yeah, problem with printing your own stuff is that you need to buy a good printer, which will cost you. good paper will also cost you. and then there is ink and maintenance, which will cost you.

its actually more expensive to do your own printing, but if its the only way to get consistent results................ Confused

practically every fine art/landscape photographer I know of do their own printing. not sure about weddings and events

the Bear SG

strangely, here's something...

could be that you are shooting in too high res..

seriously..

in order to cram a 10MP picture into a 4R, it will require some "squishing"

and remember.. these are pixels you are talking about... they are not as fine as photons... or grain from film which you can squish almost infinitely...

the smooth line becomes a stepladder because that's the mathematical formula which will approximate to that smooth line when squished..

try dropping a 3000 pixel wide pic by a factor of three.. you will get 1000pixels

try dropping it by a factor of 1.7 and you will get an irrational number...

av98m SG

if the problem shows up consistently that's one thing.

problem is, it occurs at random!! Mad

I've printed lanscape photos with lots of details in them in 4R and they turned out very well!! Sharp and details all there!

*pulls hair*

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