nigelblake said:
Looks like Canon are considering that they will be discontinuing film camera development production.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsA...8_RTRUKOC_0_US-JAPAN-CANON.xml&archived=False
Hi Nigel
Just received a package from Birdwatch magazine returning some of my 35mm slides, the accompanying letter stated as follows.
Quote:
"Birdwatch Magazine:
Following a major reorganisation of our in-house picture library, and in view of the increasing number of digital image submissions, we have decided to return a large number of transparencies currently held in stock. This is not for reasons of quality: with modern production processes it is simply much easier for us to work with digital images for publication in the magazine.
Therefore, enclosed with this letter you will rind a selection of your slides, returned with thanks. It may well be that we have retained other material from you on file for possible future use, as a small number of transparencies are still published in each issue. But for further submissions to the magazine, we now require high-resolution digital images: these should be saved as Windows-friendly TIFF or JPEG files at 300dpi, with a minimum image width of 1500 pixels (preferably larger). Please do not submit scans of transparencies or prints, unless they have been generated by professional drum-scanning processes."
Looks like the writings on the wall for film, it can't be long before all the other glossy magazines and publishing companies follow suit. It's so much easier for them to go digital, no massive storage libraries, everything easily accessed via the computer. Software publishing packages can do it all, access the database, select the photo, size and position it to fit the article. End result, lower overheads, fewer skilled operatives to do the work, more profit!
I find it a bit alarming that they are not prepared to accept quality scans from slides, I personally have invested quite heavily in scanning equipment which is more than capable of producing the high quality scans necessary, especially when you compare them to some of the low quality digital reproductions this particular magazine uses.
nirofo.