William Robb wrote: >From: "Mark Roberts" > >>>I think Pentax had a wonderful idea, but by refusing to put the ongoing >>>resources required into the gallery, they have diluted the concept. >> >> I strongly suspect it isn't so much a matter of "refusing" as not >> having the money. This ain't Canikon we're dealing with. > >Do you really think that the way they are doing it is costing any less than >doing it the right way?
Yes. A lot. I know what they'd have to pay people for this and I can make a pretty good estimate of what that site has cost and is costing them. Their solution of having participants contribute to a first pass evaluation and then moving on to their paid staff seems a sensible compromise. I feel pretty good about it given *which* people on the PDML have contributed to the judging. It's unreasonable to expect this standard from *all* the people who help out with voting, but I'll bet it's the better photographers as a rule who put most of the time and effort into it. -- 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.
