Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 21, 2007, at 1:16 AM, Tina wrote: > I wish, Harrison, but they don't seem to care about resolution or > quality any more. Have you seen the grainy, awful video grabs they > are using on the front page? And even photos shot off of the TV and > credited in the byline to the TV station!! What an awful mess! Tina, Don't overestimate the demand for high quality imaging. Ninety five percent of all photos are never enlarged to greater than 4x6" size. Average TV viewing with screen images of less than 1 mb resolution exceeds 6 hours a day. The demand for HDTV is underwhelming. The only thing propping it up is the Super Bowl and the fact that the government has mandated that all TV broadcasting will soon be HDTV digital. Even when that occurs, many viewers will buy cheap set top converters to continue to use their analog TVs. My daughter's former TV station (non-unionized) issued consumer grade camcorders to reporters to catch fleeting news stories. A viewer survey showed that most TV fans could care less about image quality. They even put cell phone video on the air. YouTube, with low resolution 10 fps video is the greatest marketing triumph since sliced bread. And my old newspaper, the Boston Globe, published my 4x5" Speed Graphic masterpieces behind a 65 lpi screen. Nothing changes - it's the image content, not the quality, that makes the news. The only people that care about image are Leica fans and National Geographic readers. It's tough being in the minority. Larry Z