I'm sure they hope their next shot will make the cover of Life Magazine. Some times the higher quality can be useful. Reducing to newsprint is easy.
Powell >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
