Although this has not been widely noticed, the internet is changing stock photography (where you look for an existing photograph to use). Where people went to large stock agencies to find images, many now rely on web searches.
This has it made
possible for
this photographer to generate decent sales
without doing anything outside cyberspace. An yes,
most of the traffic is from google or its
partners. This is just my area of specialty, but I am sure
there are many other businesses that have been affected the same way.
The statement "Adams would have used a Nikon D100"
is hilarious. The D100 is a 6 MP camera that is
almost two year old, an eternity in this digital age. In 2003, we have 22 MP one-shot digital backs,
as well as scanning backs that have more than 100MP.
It may be a "piece of cake" to make a 30x40 from
a 6 MP camera, and is it to make one from a
webcam too. Problem is the *quality* won't compare to 8x10.
To see the level of quality attainable with LF
film even scanned at a modest resolution, check
this
page of landscape photographs.
Curiously, this question is just discussed today
on largeformatphotography.info,
possibly the main web forum for discussion of large
format photography (the kind that was practised by
Adams).
35mm film is routinely scanned to 4000dpi, resulting
in an approximatively 20MB file. Now if you scan at
the same resolution a piece of 8x10 film, which
has 50x the surface area of 35mm, you get 1G.
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Although this has not been widely noticed, the internet is changing stock photography (where you look for an existing photograph to use). Where people went to large stock agencies to find images, many now rely on web searches. This has it made possible for this photographer to generate decent sales without doing anything outside cyberspace. An yes, most of the traffic is from google or its partners. This is just my area of specialty, but I am sure there are many other businesses that have been affected the same way.
It may be a "piece of cake" to make a 30x40 from a 6 MP camera, and is it to make one from a webcam too. Problem is the *quality* won't compare to 8x10. To see the level of quality attainable with LF film even scanned at a modest resolution, check this page of landscape photographs.
Curiously, this question is just discussed today on largeformatphotography.info, possibly the main web forum for discussion of large format photography (the kind that was practised by Adams).
35mm film is routinely scanned to 4000dpi, resulting in an approximatively 20MB file. Now if you scan at the same resolution a piece of 8x10 film, which has 50x the surface area of 35mm, you get 1G.