the last word

Photography meets digital computer technology. Photography wins -- most of the time.

  • site home
  • blog home
  • galleries
  • contact
  • underwater
  • the bleeding edge
You are here: Home / The Last Word / A book report: LensWork publishing services

A book report: LensWork publishing services

May 14, 2015 By JimK Leave a Comment

This is post eleven in a series about my experiences in publishing a book. The series starts here.

I got an interesting email yesterday from LensWork, pointing me at this website:

Here are the details.

Isn’t that a coincidence! Just at the time when I start working on publishing a book, LensWork gets into that business, and using the very same printer that I was planning on using. Their rates are very attractive: $31K for 1000 96-page 9.5×12 inch full-color hardbound books, including design, scanning (if necessary), CMYK conversion (I’d never let anyone else do that, knowing what I know now), press checks, proofs — the whole ball of wax. They’re even using the same paper I was planning on using.

The differences, besides price:

  • A smaller, book. I was planning on 10.5×13.5, but I’m having second thoughts about going that big anyway.
  • 20 micron stochastic screen rather than 10,
  • Possible the cover thickness and cloth selection.
  • No varnish.
  • No French-fold dust cover.
  • No slip case.
  • No portfolio insert.
  • No fly sheet. At least it’s not mentioned.
  • Probably not as great a design. I think LensWork is very well designed, but Jerry Takigawa is in another league.

I’ll call them up and talk to them, if for nothing more than due diligence, but I’m currently thinking that I’ll stick with Jerry for my first — and possibly only — book. His designs are something special, and there’s also that thing about dancing with the one that brought you.

← Flash photography’s pariah status EFCS and atmospheric effects →

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

January 2021
S M T W T F S
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31  
« Dec    

Articles

  • About
    • Patents and papers about color
    • Who am I?
  • How to…
    • Backing up photographic images
    • How to change email providers
  • Lens screening testing
    • Equipment and Software
    • Examples
      • Bad and OK 200-600 at 600
      • Excellent 180-400 zoom
      • Fair 14-30mm zoom
      • Good 100-200 mm MF zoom
      • Good 100-400 zoom
      • Good 100mm lens on P1 P45+
      • Good 120mm MF lens
      • Good 18mm FF lens
      • Good 24-105 mm FF lens
      • Good 24-70 FF zoom
      • Good 35 mm FF lens
      • Good 60 mm lens on IQ3-100
      • Good 63 mm MF lens
      • Good 65 mm FF lens
      • Good 85 mm FF lens
      • Good and bad 25mm FF lenses
      • Good zoom at 24 mm
      • Marginal 18mm lens
      • Marginal 35mm FF lens
      • Mildly problematic 55 mm FF lens
      • OK 16-35mm zoom
      • OK 60mm lens on P1 P45+
      • OK Sony 600mm f/4
      • Pretty good 16-35 FF zoom
      • Pretty good 90mm FF lens
      • Problematic 400 mm FF lens
      • Tilted 20 mm f/1.8 FF lens
      • Tilted 30 mm MF lens
      • Tilted 50 mm FF lens
      • Two 15mm FF lenses
    • Found a problem – now what?
    • Goals for this test
    • Minimum target distances
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Printable Siemens Star targets
    • Target size on sensor
      • MFT
      • APS-C
      • Full frame
      • Small medium format
    • Test instructions — postproduction
    • Test instructions — reading the images
    • Test instructions – capture
    • Theory of the test
    • What’s wrong with conventional lens screening?
  • Previsualization heresy
  • Privacy Policy
  • Recommended photographic web sites
  • Using in-camera histograms for ETTR
    • Acknowledgments
    • Why ETTR?
    • Normal in-camera histograms
    • Image processing for in-camera histograms
    • Making the in-camera histogram closely represent the raw histogram
    • Shortcuts to UniWB
    • Preparing for monitor-based UniWB
    • A one-step UniWB procedure
    • The math behind the one-step method
    • Iteration using Newton’s Method

Category List

Recent Comments

  • Robert Frangioso on Leica 280/4 Apo-Telyt R on GFX 50R in infrared
  • Robert Frangioso on Why so few posts?
  • Ken on Noise reduction and downsampling
  • Robert Kuechle on Chronography video up
  • JimK on Leica 90/2 Apo-Summicron ASPH-M on GFX 50S
  • DanB on Leica 90/2 Apo-Summicron ASPH-M on GFX 50S
  • gideon on How fast is the Sony a7RIV silent shutter?
  • JimK on How fast is the Sony a7RIV silent shutter?
  • Gideon on How fast is the Sony a7RIV silent shutter?
  • JimK on How fast is the Sony a7RIV silent shutter?

Archives

Unless otherwise noted, all images copyright Jim Kasson.