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Snow in Tombstone, and a warm Victorian home

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OP Jon Donahue Senior Member • Posts: 1,158
Re: Snow in Tombstone, and a warm Victorian home
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For newsprint use, for sure. But in my double role as a tourism guy for the city here, I also send out images like these for internet display... to state and federal tourism agencies, to private travel tour companies, to online digital travel magazines, and to folks doing Facebook and Instagram. What's interesting is that the digital people want content. All they can get. They don't care about image quality the same way photographers do. My 2000-pixel-on-the-long-side images are just fine for the digital gang. That said, i try to send hi-res 300 ppi images to magazines printed on good paper... but these days, 250 ppi gets by without complaints.

I think it's the nature of any new technology to lower old quality standards... since the new benefits are compelling. At the start of my career in ad agencies, then-new offset printing blew letterpress out of the water, as photos were suddenly so easy to get into print. As far as work goes, if I could merge an iPhone with a Pentax case, I'd be in heaven. The Pentax ergonomics are unbelievably good compared to the clunky smartphones. But picture quality? The smartphones are like sharks in the water, coming up to rip chunks out of the established camera market, before devouring it altogether.

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