Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Question for professional (digital)sportsphotographers
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sat Sep 25 19:26:04 2004

I was shooting for a corporate client and AP was doing a story about the
client and needed art... ;-)

-----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 8:55 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Question for professional
(digital)sportsphotographers


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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