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Subject: [Leica] Question for photojournalists concerning digital photos
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed Aug 3 13:00:45 2005
References: <S.0000378850@trivalleycentral.com>

On Aug 3, 2005, at 10:08 AM, Steven King wrote:

> Dan:  I work for a daily newspaper in Arizona,

what pare and location Steve...




Steve


> 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.
>>
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