on 3/4/03 12:33 pm, Bob Croxford wrote:
> Although not related directly to digital capture the last 48 sheet > stock image I sold had to be re-scanned from a 35mm tranny. I already > had a perfect drum scan of sufficient size. The reason the new drum > scan was necessary was because of the way that this printer was doing > the printing of the separate sheets. Specialised equipment requires > specialised files. > > Many small digital files have been used as large posters. I think the > best course of action is to ask the agency for the spec. required. > > FWIW BBC Online used the image of John Prescott punching a heckler on a > 48 sheet poster. It was a 4Mb file. > This is interesting as I have just had one of my stock images used across the entire frontage of the biggest building in Liverpool city centre. The people who did it are claiming it as a record - 20 per cent bigger than anything done previously. I haven't measured it but it's got to be at least 150 foot long. How did they do it? Don't know. They somehow acquired my 80mb scan and used it without my permission. However, I'm on their trail and will hopefully let you know in due course how they achieved an image of this size from a relatively small file. Just a thought, but does this put me in the record books as the victim of the world's biggest theft of an image?! Regards Ron Jones Ron Jones Associates / Merseyside Photo Library =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
