Digital BW, The Print

>>I do not expect that image editing improves when less experienced users 
work on 10" displays in all kinds of environments. Not to mention the 
lack of color management. Sure there is a 40 MP Nokia phone to feed that 
image stream and I will not object to make a 3x4' print at the end of 
that stream but to consider it as a real alternative for what we have 
already? Anyway more likely that 99% of the images never will be 
printed. Which makes it off topic here.

I agree that paper prints will decline in quantity, especially with the iPad 3 as a portfolio. But an iPad 3 at 15 inches from my face (assuming I have my reading glasses on) can offer about the same visual experience a desktop display does from the desktop. And it has a built-in touch tablet, which is a tempting tool for burn and dodge work. As. For color management, I review all edited images in SpyderGallery before doing anything critical with them. For printing I still send them to the Mac first, but that might change over time if decent color control for output is offered for wireless printing...

It's not all going to be baby-boomers using desktops versus kids using mobile; the excitement amongst older photographers about iphoneography is quite amazing at photo events these days. 

C. David Tobie
Blog: cdtobie.wordpress.com
Website: cdtobie.com

On Mar 13, 2012, at 8:43 AM, Ernst Dinkla <e.dinkla@...> wrote:

> I do not expect that image editing improves when less experienced users 
> work on 10" displays in all kinds of environments. Not to mention the 
> lack of color management. Sure there is a 40 MP Nokia phone to feed that 
> image stream and I will not object to make a 3x4' print at the end of 
> that stream but to consider it as a real alternative for what we have 
> already? Anyway more likely that 99% of the images never will be 
> printed. Which makes it off topic here.