On Jun 4, 2013, at 2:39 PM, Walt <ldott...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/4/2013 1:21 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> On Jun 4, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Matthew Hunt <m...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> >>> wrote: >>>> On Jun 4, 2013, at 11:11 AM, John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com> wrote: >>>>> Too bad I don't have a subscription to cancel. >>>> Why, might I ask? Does it matter how the paper gets their photos? Not much >>>> resolution is required for reproduction on newsprint stock. >>> Not to answer for John, but my concern wouldn't be the camera used, >>> but the firing of the photojournalists and the loss of their >>> expertise. >>> >> A good point. The jobs of some photographers will go away. I provide both >> copy and photos for all of the pubs I work for, but that's not common. >> However, it might have to be if newspapers are to survive. They can't make >> ends meet on the old model. That's been proven. Cost cutting is essential, >> and if a quality product can be delivered at less cost by combining >> photographer and journalist roles -- even at larger pubs -- it's going to >> happen. The other choice is no newspaper and no jobs. >> >> BTW, most newspaper staff photographer jobs are already gone. The vast >> majority of pubs depend on freelancers at minimal rates when they have to >> and use stock photography much of the time. Training reporters to generate >> their own photos might actually be an upgrade. > I'm not so sure it will work out any better than it would have if they'd just > fired all the reporters and trained the photographers to write.
I assume you're being facetious, but as I said, the staff photographers are already gone for the most part. And while cameras have become capable of getting most of the technical details of a photograph right, no one has yet produced a machine that can conduct interviews and generate good copy. That too may be coming, but, thankfully, it won't be in my lifetime. Paul > > -- Walt > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
