Buzz Bryson
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I think the first question you need to ask is what is, or might be, the ultimate use of the scanned images.
Ian,
Commercial version is at http://www.flytubez.com/.
They were at trade show last year, or year before.
My experience has been a bit different. I’ve had 2-3 magazines, after I respond to querys with the requested low-res jpegs, specifically ask for raw files. I asked if they really meant the NEF files and they said yes. At other times, the same magazines said jpegs were fine. Some were used double truck, some column width. Depends on what they’re doing, and the skills of the production folks, I reckon. At least one of them I deal with has an in-office printer that duplicates (so they tell me) what comes off the out-of-house production line, so that if they have any question about final quality, they can print hard copy to view how photo will appear in magazine.
One magazine, as recently as a couple of years ago, didn’t want to take digital, but wanted a couple of photos I had, so asked me to print them “large size”. I took them a 13×19 print (that from a D100, 6mp), and said great, and bought the photos. As far as I know, they now take digital regularly, as long as file size is large enough, and they don’t care whether it’s raw or jpeg.
Buzz
Zach,
Was at the dreaded mall today, and stuck head into Wolf Camera. They had a lightweight tripod and ball head for $59.95. Might actually work for what you’re wanting.
Dang Zach,
Don’t you know that putting “photo” in front of anything adds at least $100 to the price? And you only want to spend $100!
I think, though, you probably have about the best you can get for the bucks. Gitzo and others, of course, have some really nice lightweight tripods in graphite and basalt, like the G-1298 (3+ lbs), and Really Right Stuff has that cute little BH-25 ball head (< 1/2 lb). And you'd only be out, for the pair, about $550. Oh yes, the RRS plates for your body are about $50 too, so say $600. On a more serious note, we used to take those standard 1/4″-20 bolts and attach them to all sorts of things to make camera mounts. Add a cheap, small, ball head, and you can attach a camera in all sorts of places. Braze one or two of the bolts onto a Vise-Grip and you can clamp it to about anything you can get the jaws around – – – a pipe, tree limb, chair arm/leg, etc. Attach one to a lag screw, and you can screw it into a tree. Put one on a walking staff with a sharp tip and jam it into the ground (usually you can see those slowly start to tip over and watch your camera drop to the ground). All of the above makes one appreciate the Bogen value prices even more. Buzz
Ted is an excellent writer (probably comes from being a great angler, fly tier, and all-round great guy.
Zach is correct, in that raw files are better-suited to getting the absolute maximum amount of information out of a file.
