Interesting history, Herb... Thanks.

keith whaley

Herb Chong wrote:
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> there are vanishingly few editorial stock photo clients that request film. many, 
> many stock photo agencies are either converting or completely converted to digital 
> now and will refuse to accept film. you have to supply digital files. they won't 
> scan your slides for you gratis anymore given the availability of high quality film 
> scanners at reasonable prices. in editorial stock, anyone still using film will be 
> laughed out of the market and 6 megapixels are considered adequate. for commercial 
> stock, the file size/resolution requirements are higher, but that typically stops at 
> 11 megapixels, which by no coincidence is the same resolution as the Canon 1-Ds. 
> magazine covers are routinely done from 4 megapixel files.

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