I was at a folk music festival yesterday, and saw a PJ taking crowd shots using a Canon 1Ds and a big lens (not sure what it was - some investigating on my part could figure it out).
My question is: why do newspapers use these expensive cameras for prints that simply end up on newsprint, which has poor resolution? Why use a 11MP camera with expensive lenses (the whole unit costing in the thousands of dollars), when a much smaller, less expensive camera would provide the same results, given the nature of their use? I understand why someone shooting for National Geographic or some other higher quality print magazine would use a higher priced set up such as a 1Ds. But newsprint is such a terrible medium for such an expensive piece of electronics and optics! Any explanation? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
