Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi I believe that policy should be blamed on film shooters aka us :) cos maybe the general impression that one needs at least 20 megapixels to match a film scan (or something to that effect) is so entrenched that agencies like Getty and some others were not accepting submissions from "lesser" digital cameras. I think the original 1Ds was the first "accepted" digital camera.... This mindset was not broken for a very long time. National Geographic is one establishment that insisted on film until one of their shooter (i think it was Joe McNally?) convinced them otherwise. Actually, even now, there are still people who think u need at least 20 megapixels or even more to match a decent slow speed fine grained slide in producing a good print. The funny thing is, there's isn't much comment about the higher ISO film :) The truth is that even 4 megapixel DSLRs can do double page spread on magazines and the "old" D1x had pictures from it splashed across the front cover and inside pages of National Geographic for at least one issue (the article shot by Joe McNally). ---------- David Teo "Red Dawn" Boon Hwee david@5stonesphoto.com On 01-Jul-05, at AM 09:18, mcyclwritr@comcast.net wrote: > Now that's a policy that raises the price of admission. Either throw > $8k at a body, which does not include any of those funny looking > tubular-shaped things called lenses, or throw countless hours of > (some)one's life into scanning film. > > So, exactly when was it that Canon bought Getty? > > -Chris Lawson > > > Tina advises: > >> Getty requires that their photographers use Canon 1Ds >> Mark II full-frame cameras for all digital submissions. You can scan >> film >> or you can submit digital from the 1Ds and those are the only options.