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A question I am frequently asked - 'what flat bed scanner do you recommend I should buy?'

This is a nightmare of a question and one which is not easily answered without first responding with the question 'what do you know about image post processing and pre-press?', followed, usually in my case, by the whole book preamble on the history of photography. It serves little purpose. Most individuals in my experience of this subject, are impulse buyers who have swallowed the manufacturer carrot and purchase on the basis of product appearance and little understanding of the mechanics or specification. By the time I have gotten to Niepce, listeners are already bored stiff. You know the glazed eye look... more......

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The November/December issue of the NUJ Journalist carries several stories of interest to independent freelance photographers.

Ajax has reported in a previous post (6.9.06) on the trend by news gathering agencies and newspaper publishers to shift day to day operations from traditional still image production for newsprint to video footage for their multi-media operations, which include, print, internet, and podcasts. The English national, The Daily Telegraph, is one of the heavy-weight papers at the forefront of the move to video content gathering which it says will be well advanced by 2007. The Press Association has been operating a voluntary video footage gathering operation for some time, but it cannot be long before this becomes part of the job description for all photographers. And in the USA, these programmes are already pretty well advanced. more.....

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I have had plenty of time since dismantling the darkroom more than a decade back to mull over the pros and cons of its modern technology replacement.

They are pretty much as you might imagine; faster turnarounds, the convenience of instantly being able to see what you are doing, improved image archive management (though not necessarIly the same level of archive permanence.), and of course, speed of delivery to the client. This is without mentioning substantial cost savings on film, paper and chemicals and which in my case, are not substituted with ink or dye sub materials. I simply have no need of them. In a purely objective world, the only prints I need are the ones I have already made in a different technological era.

But.......

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