So...Your name's not Bruce then.
Dave
> On 28 Nov 2005 at 21:26, Bob Shell wrote:
>
> >
> > On Nov 28, 2005, at 8:05 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:
> >
> > > "I, as well as every full-time career professional photographer
> > > I've ever met,
> > > just happen to use Mac. It's a given, just as Windows is for
> > > engineers and
> > > cubicle workers. By "full-time" I mean full-time, not the guy in
> > > your office
> > > who shoots weddings, portraits, stock or sells photos at fairs on
> > > the side. By
> > > "career" I mean someone who's been doing photography all along, not
> > > someone who
> > > dropped out of another job. I don't mean to offend anyone with these
> > > definitions and I'll hope to find a more delicate way to explain
> > > that people
> > > coming from other careers often bring baggage. "
> >
> >
> > Much as I normally dislike Rockwell, I am in full agreement with him
> > on this. I know a lot of high-end professional photographers, and
> > nearly every one of them uses Mac. I'm a strong advocate of Mac for
> > imaging use, and even more so for digital video work.
>
> I guess Apple doesn't have such a mental hold on people outside the US or
> alternately there are much more capable computer engineers elsewhere. I
> worked
> along side the publishing and pre-press industries long enough to draw my own
> conclusions (I expect that you know that the Australia magazine publishing
> industry were the first in the world to implement wholesale electronic
> publishing work-flows as well? And none were primarily Mac based to my
> knowledge). I'll submit that video editing on the low end is likely currently
> primarily the domain of the Mac but not still imaging at least not here.
>
>
> Rob Studdert
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