The whole conversation was a very interesting insight into the "dark side of digital." He loves the D60's quality, but the day before he had taken school pictures of something like 150 kids, for which parents are paying about $15-20 each, 3 poses a piece, and then he said not only was he having trouble with his card reader, but his computer crashed! He was afraid he'd lost a lot of work. It's still on the CF cards, but still... he's thinking of hiring someone else to do all the image transfering and processing. Kind of like going back to using a lab . . .
I can certainly see a lot of advantages of digital for this kind of work, although they are greater in PJ work I think, and analog has its own set of problems, but this was a very interesting insight into the inherent problems with the new medium. I'd really have to think about what demands I'd be putting on a digital darkroom when processing 300-400 very large files. (how big IS one D60 image? more than 20MB I imagine). How many images does a pro photographer walk away from a wedding with? I doubt as many, but still... One creative use of digital possibilities I saw: I was in the band playing at a big party recently, and there was a photographer who had set up a mini-"studio" out in a hall with a good digital camera/lights/backdrop, etc; a laptop and a little dye-sub printer. He was shooting, editing, and selling prints right there at $35 a pop! Had some prefab mattes that looked just fine, and people were loving it, doing goofy group shots, etc. He was doing this for hours. I think he must have made a killing that night! Ken * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
