On 17 Feb 2006 at 7:44, Paul Stenquist wrote: > What is the size requirement of the stock house to which you refer? You > can convert to six megapixel image to a nice 72 meg, 8 bit file in the > PSCS RAW converter. No stock house I've contacted wants images larger > than that. The Hearst and Primedia photo editors I've worked with > prefer them at about 36 megs for all but spread photos, which require > only 50 megs or so. Yes, I want ten megapixels, but six are adequate > for quite a lot of the work that even a mid-level working pro would > attempt.
Forget stock houses, you're shooting for stock and I appreciate that but I'm not, they aren't even on my radar, I don't just want to be able to shoot to print little magazine images. I want to be able to print large images and crop like I can using my 67 kit and scanner. I find 6MP source images somewhat limiting and no matter by what means they are upsized and expanded in volume they are still only 6MP when it comes down to the reality, they will resolve no more than about 44.6lpmm from the best lens over the little 24x16mm sensor. This translates to about 2.35lppmm on a 18x12" print, not great resolution. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
