[Leica] Stock Photography

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Mark Rabiner offered in rebuttal:
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Stock Photography


> I'd thought that this was one of the main reasons Stock was being 
> discussed.
> its a baseline for a technical level of photography which is something to
> aim at or consider. If I was shooting what was not considered to be cool by
> most of these people I'd worry . And I am. And I do.<<<<<<<<

Hi Mark,
Yep if the industry has a standard to run with for a required size, one had 
better run the course they set or leave town. I quite frankly went nuts when 
MASTERFILE set the size of the RAW digital images and required a switch to 
NIKON for the quality capture. At the time apparently NIKON were the only 
camera able to do so in the industry. 

A number of shooters switched, spending thousands of dollars so they could 
keep their contract intact and basically a job. Then other manufacturers 
caught up and the camera type became a non-issue.

And as happened, some shooters refused to do anything and eventually left 
the stable. Those who really work in this stock industry have to supply a 
demand for certain size regulations and if one doesn't want to use them 
that's fine, their decision. But if one feels just because they can make 
super fantastic 13X19 prints of any subject, those prints do not nor will 
not meet the standard reproduction size for quality Rights Managed images.

You're quite correct, it's a baseline for technically better re-production 
images.

cheers,
ted