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Selecting a printer

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Selecting a printer

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I have a confession to make. I don't get all of this online photo stuff, Flickr and sending photos over Facebook, and all of that kind of stuff, but yeah, yeah, yeah I get that it's a great way to share your images with a lot of people, but I don't understand people who never print their images, because as far as I'm concerned, until trees have been killed and toxic chemicals have been squirted on them to produce a photographic print, until that's happened, your image isn't done. Now, that's not just me being old- fashioned and thinking in some quaint 20th-century idea of photography. I believe that a well-crafted photographic print always looks better than an image on screen, for one simple reason, and that is the light that we're used to seeing, the light that we see in the everyday world, the light that our eyes are developed for, is reflected light. It's light that bounces off of things into our eyes, just like light bounces off of a photographic print into our eyes. When you look…

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