Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan: I work for a daily newspaper in Arizona, 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