Pushing Pixels: $5 Idiocy

Courtesy Photo Business News & Forum  Thu, 08/06/2009 - 22:01

Photography should not be sold by the pixel. Images are not the same as selling sugar by the pound. Yet, as if the stupidity of Getty's $49 imagery wasn't enough (more on that here ), Getty Images is now selling images by pixel dimensions.

To give you some perspective - below is the full frame dimensions of a file from a Canon EOS 1DS Mark III.

Then, in black, is a 170 pixel by 170 pixel box, representing what...


 

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