One of the earlier posts in this thread mentioned that Getty
Images , a major stock photography company, posted their
camera/scanner requirements on their website. I went searching
on their website today, and located their standards. Here are
their requirements for cameras:
If you are shooting
The DSLR digital camera's mentioned are all the higher end models of their
respective manufacturers as well as among the more current models in the
pipeline. Their being selected probably has as much to do with the degree
of noise and distortion of their sensors as the number of megapixels that
I was the one that brought up the topic, based on a speech I attended by
Jim Sugar. He uses
http://marketplace.digitalrailroad.net/Default.aspx
rather than Getty, but believes you should meet the Getty standards. As
I also mentioned, the EOS-1ds Mark II seems to be THE standard.
Jim also has a