Hi everyone,
I don't know if anyone has seen this, but Edinburgh City Libraries have just put their photographic archive online to view. You can see thumbnails of the images and they are available for purchase. It seems to have the same kind of layout as the Virtual Mitchell site.
The link is: http://www.capitalcollections.org.uk/index.php
There's a link to a BBC story on it at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edi ... 263655.stm
Have fun!
Best wishes
Brian
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Hello Brian,
That’s a very interesting and well laid out site. But it beats me why they feel the need to mutilate the viewing images with large watermarks right across the centre. It’s not as if they’re of printing resolution. There are much more civilized ways of displaying copyright information.
There’s a lot of fine detail about pricing even coming up with a figure like 17.63 but they haven’t bothered to mention whether it’s a proper photograph or something spewed out of an Inkjet.
There’s absolutely no detail about the product at least not that I can see. It costs Ten Pounds for a JPEG but there’s nothing about resolution, or compression, whether it is greyscale or colour or whether the watermark wizard has had his way with it as well.
Two Pounds postage to Edinburgh sound expensive although to Australia it’s not too bad.
The Virtual Mitchell is far superior to this site. They’re not even in the same league.
All the best,
Alan
That’s a very interesting and well laid out site. But it beats me why they feel the need to mutilate the viewing images with large watermarks right across the centre. It’s not as if they’re of printing resolution. There are much more civilized ways of displaying copyright information.
There’s a lot of fine detail about pricing even coming up with a figure like 17.63 but they haven’t bothered to mention whether it’s a proper photograph or something spewed out of an Inkjet.
There’s absolutely no detail about the product at least not that I can see. It costs Ten Pounds for a JPEG but there’s nothing about resolution, or compression, whether it is greyscale or colour or whether the watermark wizard has had his way with it as well.
Two Pounds postage to Edinburgh sound expensive although to Australia it’s not too bad.
The Virtual Mitchell is far superior to this site. They’re not even in the same league.
All the best,
Alan
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Its a wonderful web site and well worth a visit and it can only get better
I spent many years of my childhood in Edinburgh and really enjoyed looking through the site
it also says quite clearly that the images are digital
All prints will be supplied on photographic quality paper with a matt finish.
and the watermark which is very faint will be to deter people from just downloading the images as some folk think if its on the web its there for the taking
regards Lesley in Tassie
I spent many years of my childhood in Edinburgh and really enjoyed looking through the site
it also says quite clearly that the images are digital
All prints will be supplied on photographic quality paper with a matt finish.
and the watermark which is very faint will be to deter people from just downloading the images as some folk think if its on the web its there for the taking
regards Lesley in Tassie
researching : Roddick, Stewart, Combe,Lyle , Wilkie, Budge, Kirkwood,Howat, McKinlay, Gunning, Gumprecht, Mirrlees, Muckersie, Greig, Moncrieff, Pattison, Hornibrook, Teape, Brockhoff,Buchanan,