Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 12/4/04, IN THE LOUPE discumbobulated: > >>>> Currently, participants are allowed THREE entries! >>>> >>>I'm trying to figure some way for contestants to turn in a memory card with >>>only 3 entries on it. >> >>Hey, can I be the one to collect the cards?! >>Oh...wait...they'll be expecting to get the cards BACK, right? >>Damn! > >How about buying a hundred 32 MB CF and SD cards
And SmartMedia cards and XD cards and Memory Sticks.... >(using GFM proceeds) and issuing those to digi contestants - and >asking for them back with the (max) three entries on. This kills >several bears er birds with one stone. Digital photographers would >have to be very studious in shooting (as a slide shooter would be) Nah. The experienced digital guys would just shoot thousands of pictures using their own memory cards, edit out their best shots on their laptops and transfer the best three onto the card that they would turn in for the contest. This would put less-well-equipped photographers at a huge disadvantage. >and in fact would effectively edit their selection either as they shoot >on the Saturday, or just before handing back the card on the [Saturday >or Sunday]. We're leaning strongly toward a Saturday evening deadline for the digital contest because the file transfer and organization and the judging will be so much more time-consuming. -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
