On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Rules for digital photo competitions can be really troublesome to get right. > > We had a lot of discussion about the rules when the GFM Nature > Photography Weekend photo contest went digital. We stuck with film for > longer than most people probably expected, just to make sure as many > people as possible were really up to speed with digital before we did so. > > And at GFM, we have the advantage of dealing with people who are pretty > serious about their photography, so are well above the average knowledge > level of the general public. I imagine running a County Fair photo > contest, attracting a lot of point-and-click type shooters could be a > real nightmare.
Most people that I know, even snapshooters (especially snapshooters!) are digital these days. Geez, I just saw ads for bottom of the line Sanyo and Sony 6 meg zoom p&s cams for like $70! That's like about the cost of 3 or 4 rolls of colour including processing? For something like a county fair, they should just have categories for amateur and pro. Or maybe amateur, advanced amateur and pro. Leave it to the integrity of the entrants to classify themselves. Forget about separate categories for film and digital. They should make it about the photographs, not the camera type. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
