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Subject: [Leica] Question for photojournalists concerning digital photos
From: sking at trivalleycentral.com (Steven King)
Date: Wed Aug 3 10:04:32 2005

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

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>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.
>
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