The company/portal Amanda is talking about sounds like Alamy to me. Most stock photography agencies are now demanding 50 mgb, or bigger files. Alamy requires photographers to use camera's capable of 11 mgb and suggests Genuine Fractals be used to 'grow' the files.
The issue here is that the images are being marketed on-line and these companies do not have the time or the inclination to go chasing photographers if a bigger file is needed. None of these companies is prepared to put itself at a disadvantage by supplying smaller files than its competitors, and they most of them are coming from a situation where an image was formerly being supplied on film, and how many megabytes does a 35mm frame hold? Additionally, in some cases of instant need companies have immediate access to the multi-megabit files bypassing the supplier. The speed at which the image is supplied becomes a major factor. These people self bill, a situation which has some photographers worried. Fact is, both camera's and scanners now exist that will produce the required results. They will fairly quickly become more affordable and will become the standard to which most of us conform. If you want to supply images to companies such as Alamy, Getty, Masterfile, and a whole lot more, you will have to supply images to the standard they demand. There will be no argument. Sure, some of us achieve excellent images with lesser equipment: the above companies just do not care. They have settled on a standard they insist photographers maintain. Brian Seed Stock Photography Consultant From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shangara Singh Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 2:58 AM Subject: Re: [PRODIG] 6 mega pixels not enough? It was 15/7/03 5:26 pm, when Amanda Gray wrote: > <No current 35mm based digital camera bodies can produce 28mb files and so > the files will need interpolating up to achieve A4 at 300dpi. The best > methods for doing this are currently under review. Amanda Actually, the Fuji S2 can produce 35.5MB RGB files straight out of the camera! Way above the 28mb figure quoted above. <g> And the 300dpi can easily be taken down to 240dpi and even lower! > Cameras that have not been accepted are: > Fuji Finepix S2 Pro > Nikon D100 > Nikon D1x Hmm...there's literally millions of pictures that have been taken with the above cameras and published (including front pages). I think someone forgot to tell the owners of the above cameras that they should only be used for taking family 5x4 snaps!!! <g> > Generally the more native pixels available the better, medium and large > format backs are more likely to deliver the quality required. Quality required for what? Viewing in Photoshop at 1600%?....At the end of the day, they can set the bar as high as they like since it is their business. If you have a vested interest to persuade them to lower it, you could try taking a test image (see the setups used by Dpreview.com) with a 35mm film camera and having it scanned so that it's larger than 28mb. Take the same image with your D60 and have some A4 and double-page spread digital proofs and Cromalins made, include 3mm bleed all around. I'm sure someone on the list can probably print the proofs for a beer if you asked nicely........ <g> HTH. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
