Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Aug 3, 2005, at 10:08 AM, Steven King wrote: > Dan: I work for a daily newspaper in Arizona, what pare and location Steve... Steve > and I've just spent the past > two hours shooting pix of storm damage from last night. I went to > about > five different venues and shot about 300 pix on my D1 MkII. After > I got to > the office, I edited in camera to about 30 pix, and those will get > downloaded to my G4 for processing in PS and placement in today's > edition. > If I kept every shot ever taken on my digital, I could never work > my way > through all the shots of a particular assignment to locate the > select ones. > Just the practice at my paper. Besides, when you shoot 2,000 > assignments a > year, the cost of archiving every trip of the shutter would be just > too > great. > > Happy snaps. > > Steven > > ---------- > >> From: Dan C <bladman99@yahoo.ca> >> To: lug@leica-users.org >> Subject: [Leica] Question for photojournalists concerning digital >> photos >> Date: Wed, Aug 3, 2005, 6:53 AM >> >> > > >> An article by Freeman Patterson in Photo Life magazine raised a >> question >> about how photojournalists using digital cameras treated their >> images. He >> suggested that the norm was for them to essentially delete their >> older >> unused images, as opposed to film photographers who tend to keep >> their >> negatives. He illustrated this with the example of an old photo >> of Monica >> Lewinsky meeting Bill Clinton in public that some photographer >> discovered >> amongst his old negatives, and which has appeared numerous times >> in the >> press. Patterson claims, "None of the digital photographers had >> any such >> visual records. All their old images had been deleted." >> >> Is this a valid argument (or even a true one in the above >> example)? I am >> not a photojournalist, but I have kept the vast majority of the >> digital >> images I've taken in the past 4 years, since I first started using >> digital >> cameras, probably numbering between 15,000 and 20,000 images. >> The only >> images I delete are the ones where I am fooling around with or >> testing the >> camera. >> >> But what about working photojournalists? Do they routinely >> delete photos >> (images) that aren't needed for a current assignment? >> >> -dan c. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >