Editorial: Print v digital

Staff · Issue 67, Jul/Aug 2012 · pp. 4

Products mentioned: Apple Retina Display

Editorial Print v digital The article by Jesper Kjøller later in this issue about the thinking behind their new magazine Dive the World makes interesting reading but I suspect, even at this early stage of this Editorial, you might have the sneakiest suspicion where I’m going to take this. However, you may be wrong. Digital photography has almost totally replaced film. Fact. Get over it. Like for like it’s better quality, quicker and much cheaper to run and so much easier to share. When it comes to publishing however, and in particular, magazines, there is still the old claim that “they’re tactile and I like turning the pages”. Also “Size matters and quality counts”. All of these are totally true if you look at them from one angle but if you move round the circle and look back you might say that the flexibility of paper distorts the image whereas a flat screen is static and displays the i…