Have reprints been getting worse?
Posted: 12 Jan 2018, 18:52
I've been using scores from my university's library lately. Many of them are photographic reproductions, yet perfectly clear and detailed, so much that you'd never tell they weren't originals.
Then I look at the reprints of the same scores, sold today in music stores, grainy and blurry and blobby to a ridiculous level.
I am not an expert on camera technology, but I don't think it's decreased in the last fifty years. And I can get better results with my home scanner most of the time.
So what gives? Why this appalling decrease in quality?
Then I look at the reprints of the same scores, sold today in music stores, grainy and blurry and blobby to a ridiculous level.
I am not an expert on camera technology, but I don't think it's decreased in the last fifty years. And I can get better results with my home scanner most of the time.
So what gives? Why this appalling decrease in quality?