---- paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
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