On Feb 23, 2010, at 9:47 AM, mike wilson wrote: > > ---- William Robb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "mike wilson" >> Subject: Re: On FF but without intent to start a flame >> >> >> >>> >>> On past evidence, professional photographers will buy and use precisely >>> what their customers tell them to. >>> >> I'm calling bullshit on this one Mike, though I did have a bride's father >> once express mild disdain because I was shooting his daughter's wedding with >> a Pentax rather than a Nikon or Canon. >> This was very much the exception. > > As, I think, is wedding photography very much the exception because the > photographer meets joe public instead of some corporate geek. > >> >> Professional photographers will shoot what they need to shoot to create >> images that are competitive within their marketplace. >> If that morphs into 135 format, then that will become the defacto >> professional format and anyone who doesn't make a 135 camera will be an also >> ran. > > Precisely my point. If your customer, the big corporation that you make most > of your living from, demands 25-30Mp files you have no choice but to go to a > larger sensor. I seem to remember this (demanding of larger files that were > able to be supplied with existing equipment) happening to at least one person > here in the past. > I work for a wide range of clients, including ad agencies with big-dollar clients as well as numerous national and local newspapers and magazines. No one has ever requested a file larger than 30 megabytes. I frequently provide 41 megabyte files, which is the size of a k7 RAW file converted without interpolation. Some clients have asked that I downsize them a bit before turning them over. Paul
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