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#83801 - 01/27/05 05:55 AM
Re: Digital Cameras
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Hi Glenn,
I have three, all of which are made by Sony. My earlier camera, which stored everything on a floppy disk, was relatively low resolution by today's standards, and the ones I use professionally are only 2.0 megapixel, but that's more than sufficient for newspaper and magazine work. The key ingredient is the camera's lens, which even in some of the new, very-high resolution cameras, are just plain lousy. The best ones utilize TTL viewing through standard 35-mm camera lenses, but they're fairly expensive. I just purchased a point and shoot Nikon for my wife, she loved it for about a week after Christmas, and has not picked it up since.
Software is also an important aspect of digital photography, some of which is very sophisticated. The latest version of Adobe Photoshop is outstanding and will do anything that needs to be done to enhance the photos, as well as some incredible editing.
Good Luck,
Gary
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#83802 - 01/27/05 08:57 AM
Re: Digital Cameras
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Loc: Lexington, Ky, USA
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We're in the graphic design business. Just last year, we went digital for most of our work. On the high end (think 90 meg-the film equivalent of an 8"x10" negative), we use a digital back on a view or bellows camera docked to a PC for catalog and studio work.
We use Cannon Rebel digitals for lower end and smaller image work ( newsletters, flyers, etc.). They operate like an SLR, and we can use our exiting Cannon lenses. They are $1,000.00 and are fine, with some resolution limitations.
I'd suggest you look at the Rebel, which is 6.3 meg. Gary is right, there are some point an dshoots that are as much as 5 meg, and they produce an image as good as a 35mm. Some very good ones are in the $300-500 range.
Russ
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#83806 - 01/27/05 06:09 PM
Re: Digital Cameras
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Russ,
I write for more than a dozen magazines and newspapers weekly and monthly, and never send anything higher than 2400 DPI to any of them. Most want far less, and by the time the photos make it to the print stage, even with the glossies, anything greater than 2.2 megapixel resolution is overkill. When I talked witht he photo editors they pretty much spelled out what they want, and I've never had a photo rejected because the resolution was too low using the 2.0 megapixel camera and sending .jpg files. Very few have asked for any other format. I guess it all depends on your particular application.
Cheers,
Gary
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