To ask for anything in MB is not necessarily a sign that they dont have a clue. Pixel dimensions, although no guarantee of quality are at least a proper bench mark - but I dont think that they really mean to communicate with the photographers.
I suspect that all they really care to do is to produce a general impression in the eyes of photobuyers that they are 'quality merchants'. Stock libraries have difficulty explaining the realities of digital repro to their clients - who we all know (from the stock libraries) are ignorant and superstitious. What is wrong one may ask with - selling digital images with the proviso - "we insist on receiving 100MB files and we try our best to get our photographers to tow the line"..... If there are any quality issues with any of the files. or the suspicion of fraud, dont worry........ while we have a clause in our photographer contracts which absolves us of any liability, you can always sue the photographer. They can reliably reassure the photographers that this is hardly likely to ever happen (since photo-buyers are ignorant)and they can just look the other way when they receive moderate to highly interpolated scans ...and everyone is happy. remember that joke about comunist Russia - "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us" all is fair in love business and war philip =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
