Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Question for professional (digital) sportsphotographers
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Thu Aug 26 17:57:48 2004

How can you afford to shoot for AP? Those guys are still at plantation level
wages! 
For me it's not worth the time, never mind the interest.
S. Dimitrov

> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:18:01 -0400
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] OT: Question for professional (digital)
> sportsphotographers
> 
> Well, last month I had to send a couple shots to AP and was told 10" on
> the long side at 200 dpi.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Slobodan Dimitrov
> Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 7:54 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Question for professional (digital)
> sportsphotographers
> 
> 
> In my experience ,the basic request for digital media images has been a
> 6"x8 at 300dpi." That's for magazine work. For newspapers, a 5"x7" at
> 200 dpi has been a standard for some time. Which means any point and
> shoot of today's vintage after 5 megs will do. S. Dimitrov
> 
> 
>> From: SonC@aol.com
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:16:08 EDT
>> To: lug@leica-users.org
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Question for professional (digital) sports
>> photographers
>> 
>> In a message dated 8/26/2004 3:37:01 PM Central Daylight Time,
>> bladman99@yahoo.ca writes: For those of you who use digital cameras
>> professionally to shoot sporting events, typically what resolution do
>> you shoot at?  For example, if using the Canon D1-S, do you use it at
>> 11mp, or at a smaller resolution?
>> 
>> -dan c.
>> _______________________________________________
>> The guy at NSU uses a 2 mp Nikon, and does quite fine,
>> thankyewverymuch.  He shoots at 300 dpi.
>> 
>> http://www.nsudemons.com/pages/garysGallery/default.asp
>> 
>> 
>> Sonny
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