Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 7/1/05 4:56 PM, "Mike Durling" <durling@cox.net> typed: > My understanding is that Getty has evaluated the results from the Nikon > D2x (12mp) and approved images from that camera for submission. So > maybe there is hope for the DMR :) > > Mike D > I know nothing about stock so I hate to be looking like I'm going against Tina who is of course involved with it intensely; But I do recall skimming though stock stuff and some charge different prices for different sized scans from an image. Some digital images taken perhaps before the Canon Full frame was even invented on other DSLR's would have a lower ceiling perhaps for sale as you're not going to use them for D?cor. You're just going to have to use them for regular print work I.e. Magazines and brochures and newspapers and flyers all from half tones separations which had been done gleefully with a D1X and now A D2H and I bet plenty doing it with the D2X AT THE LOWER SETTING. (you're not supposed to capitalize it's obnoxious and means your shouting) The lower setting I believe is the same size of a chip area as the 4/3's system Olympus E and others coming out. Like your 50mm lens is now a 100mm lens. So this full frame thing for stock just sounds bizarre to me. Tell me it ain't true. Sure there are stock agents who specialize in large format. Or panoramic. Or you name it. Infrared. Hand colored. Pin holes or heads. But to call "general work" (my term actually) stuff which needs to be done with an 8 grand camera only produced by one company strikes me as beyond shooting oneself in the foot. Not a thing I'm sure "Getty" who was a famous rich guy built his empire on. I'd love to know what the average rez or megapixels whatever you want to call it, file size; is of the average use of the average stock image used. I bet its on the small size. Minute even. I close my eyes and think clip art with the full verisimilitude shading. "Ah yes lets just slip a photo in there." Just enough to swear by; the shadow of a shade. tant soit peu a wee bit Rather in some degree, in some measure; something, somewhat- Much in common with a corpuscle. within bounds, And with a minim of girth Leaning towards the Diminutive A member of the Minutiae. well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but; near upon, Where's Marc James Small when you need him!? ... Perhaps someone will open a special stock agencies with images only taken with digital point and shoots. And are of the style which you see now a days in The FACE and Wallpaper and any remotely hip magazine in which they look like they were taken by your next door neighbor with their point and shoot. And it went off by accident. But they used it anyway because it was the only shot they got almost in focus. In other words anti professional photographs. Photogs which look like out takes taken by the clueless. You see a lot of that now a days. Anti slick. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/