Interesting history, Herb... Thanks. keith whaley
Herb Chong wrote: > > 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. [...]