I do have some PhotoDisc disks which I was sent when we were in
discussion about submissions which are regular production disks (not the
demo ones). I also have some from about half dozen other companies for
similar reasons.
Sometimes the images are fantastic drum scans, and sometimes, for
whatever reason, the images don't look any better than I can do with my
SS4000+. Truth is, in most circumstances, the type of printing being
done in terms of both quality and size is rarely more than a magazine
full bleed one page image anyway, and more often smaller still.
Yes, I'm sure they get some questionable scans when they accept digital,
but it doesn't have to be that way.
Art
Brian Yarvin wrote:
>>Very simply, if digital really was the problem these art directors
>>claimed, whose buying all those royalty free photo CDs for hundreds of
>>dollars each? How is Photodisk and the like remaining in business?
>>Some of those disks make for some pretty expensive computer monitor
>>wallpaper, and they'd also be pretty boring to look at.
>>
>
> Art and Fellow Listreaders:
>
> The big RF companies use drum scans and offer tech support.
>
> I think the problem is that the mistrust isn't for the concept of
> digital, it's for the idea that us little guys can even come remotely
> close to the quality the big companies offer.
>
> See if you can beg or borrow a disc or two from PhotoDisc, Corbis,
> Brand X or DigitalVision (to name the biggest players) and compare
> the scan quality to what our home scanners can offer. Sometimes
> we measure up, and sometimes we don't.
>
>
> Brian Yarvin
> Stock Photography from Edison, NJ
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