In a message dated 17/2/03 1:25:46 AM, cantv.net writes: << Dear Bob, I would also agree on smaller file sizes for improved storage, but, If file size is requested to be a minimum of of 55Mb, so be it and the photographer has to send it as such.
Dear Jorge What the agency should really be saying is that the digi capture file should be EQUIVALENT to a 55Mb scan from a transparency. Making their photographers produce an interpolated file is causing a lot of fraud as far as I can see. What some photographers seem to be doing is comparing a scan from a medium fast editorial 35mm film done on a desktop scanner and then saying their 35mm digi capture is a match when interpolated up to 55Mb. The comparison should be 645 or 6x7 scanned to 55Mb. (The use of 120 film in UK agencies is much more the average than 35mm) A 55Mb file is about optimum for a 645 trannie while 40Mb is about the best for 35mm. <<If you remember , someone posted not so long ago about an agency asking for "original" 100 Mb files from cameras, and this only shows massive ignorance ,or just a formal attitude to say NO to digital, a choice I would call a bad business decision these days.>>> I do remember and I now know that that agency is accepting digital files which are nowhere near 100Mb originals. Yours Bob Croxford =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
