Another Ricoh decison thread....

[helgipelgi]

Maggie, you're grasping at straws here. Just give in already

 

[simonclivehughes]

Maggie,

It seems reflective enough to be glass and it "sounds" like glass when I tap it, but I can't tell you with any certainty that it is indeed glass.

Ciao,

 

[jonoslack]

The D-Lux 3's screen is hard glass, so you could thwack it with a fingernail and you'd never know it. Is the Ricoh's equally robust? (It doesn't look like it photos.)

HI Maggie
are you sure the D-lux 3 screen is glass? Mine tastes like plastic to me (I have this screen licking habit).

 

[Maggie O]

Maggie,

It seems reflective enough to be glass and it "sounds" like glass when I tap it, but I can't tell you with any certainty that it is indeed glass.

Ciao,

OK, that sounds like it's pretty durable and if not actually glass, close enough.

I got burned by the LCDs on my old Canons- one bump or scratch and they looked awful.

Jono, silly rabbit- screens are for LOOKING not LICKING! :ROTFL:

 

[jonoslack]

Jono, silly rabbit- screens are for LOOKING not LICKING! :ROTFL:

Hi Maggie
don't knock it if you haven't tried it!

As for those Canon screens; they may seem vulnerable, but Emma's G7 was casually flipped into a deep pond by the dog. It didn't work at all...for two days...then it produced lovely milky pictures.

After a week of was back to normal, and its worked ever since.

 

[Robert Campbell]

"I can resist everything except temptation" - Oscar Wilde

 

[Photon-hunter]

Thanks for the kind words.

I'm printing with an Epson 9800 using the ImagePrint RIP on a an imitation Epson Luster paper sold in Thailand. Luster gives deep, rich blacks and, for large prints in fine. The only issue is some gloss differential in blown-out areas, which I often have. To eliminate this I have been using Renaissance Wax, which is also useful in protecting small prints from fingerprints.

—Mitch/Bangkok
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10268776@N00/

Thanks for the info. It is impressive the amount of work that goes into a print, and the effort taken to achieve the desired look...as much as I liked the screen JPEG´s, I would kill to see some "good old" prints!!

Erik.