On 30 Aug 2002 at 12:54, Knut Kampe wrote: > I'm surprised by this! I once contacted several picture banks, quite a few of > the really big ones are located in Germany, and they clearly stated that they > prefer slides for two reasons contrast range and much lower grain. Most of them > digitalize the images and some even give the slide back to you after they have > done this. The argument of pacifying editors does not hold if they only keep the > digital image.
Hi Knut, Nor would you expect to get an exhibition quality image from an image bank, these entities are in existence primarily to support advertising/illustration. Maybe I should have been more absolute, I was thinking more of photographers who need to achieve the very best quality. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html