From: graywolf > Being able to transfer your images directly to the laptop your > assistant is using to print and sell the images without having to stop > shooting is a money making benefit for event photographers. If you are > just taking photos for yourself it is probably only good for bragging > rights.
Anybody on this list shooting those kind of events and actually selling prints while the event is still in progress? Anybody NOT on this list that you know is doing that? > > I think these days globe trotting photojournalists just connect the > camera to their Sat-phone. Often set up so they go out as they are shooting. > The only one I've dealt with personally didn't. He did use a sat-phone when necessary to link back to the U.S., but not real-time via wi-fi. He took time to look at his take on the laptop and select what he wanted to send back to the real world. And he only used the sat-phone when he didn't have access to the internet. That wi-fi thingy looks like it'd work well if you're shooting down on the sports field and linking to a laptop up in the press-booth. Or maybe covering candidate press conferences ... but it's still an organizational thing; gotta have someone on both ends of the link who know what to do with the photos. > Sure beats the days when you had to send your film to Outer Mongolia > to get it developed. Of course when I was a kid I just dropped the film > off at the corner drug store a short block and a half from the house, > and right on the way to school. It was usually back the next day. And, > you think things are more convenient nowadays. > > More convenient than dropping off your film in the morning on the way to school and being able to pick your prints up playing hooky at lunch? More convenient than logging into the school library's computer at study hall and sending your images to a local 1-hr shop, then picking your prints up on the way home? Or maybe a different 1-hr shop so your friends or relatives can get the prints? Or having them mailed to your house so you don't even have to stop on the way home? Shutterfly does that. Kodak Gallery does that, AND handles C-41 film by mail. Flickr might be able to do that, but their site isn't very good, so I couldn't tell. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
