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POD specifics

August 13, 2008 JimK Leave a Comment

I promised some specifics about my POD experiences. Here we go. I have produced books using both MyPublisher and Blurb, running both of the downloadable page layout aps on Vista. Some of my experiences, especially regarding fonts, may not apply to the Mac OSs. MyPublisher has a few advantages over Blurb: The big books are… [Read More]

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More on publishing

July 4, 2008 JimK 2 Comments

Let’s say you wanted to go into the print-on-demand book business. You want to get started on the cheap, so you rent some time on an hp Indigo, cobble together some kind of fulfillment service, and start taking orders. To make customer support less of an issue, you go after a market where your customers… [Read More]

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Publish your work

July 1, 2008 JimK 1 Comment

Ever thought about doing a book? Sure you have. Maybe you even looked into the economics of it, and realized that, in order to pay for all the setup charges, you needed to have a press run of at least 1000 copies.  Two thousand turns out to be in the sweet spot. You figured out… [Read More]

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Art & Craft

June 24, 2008 JimK Leave a Comment

Two friends and I went on a photo trip a few months ago. We went to the Owens Valley to make landscapes. None of us is an accomplished landscape photographer.  Our motivation was to have a good time together doing something we like to do. Still, we were serious about it. We scouted locations during… [Read More]

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Controversy

June 21, 2008 JimK Leave a Comment

We had a little of what passes for controversy on this blog last month. Two whole comments! A couple of other people (you know who you are) said that they’d post something, but so far have not followed through. I did run into Hunter shortly after he posted his “you ignorant slut” comment. I asked… [Read More]

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      • Good 60 mm lens on IQ3-100
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      • Good 65 mm FF lens
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      • Marginal 18mm lens
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      • Mildly problematic 55 mm FF lens
      • OK 16-35mm zoom
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      • OK Sony 600mm f/4
      • Pretty good 16-35 FF zoom
      • Pretty good 90mm FF lens
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    • Iteration using Newton’s Method

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