chris@seary.com:

Bearing in mind what was said in Photography Monthly, if editors are now starting to reject 6MP pictures, should professionals be throwing away their images every three to four years as well as their cameras as the MP race goes forward?

This is the exact point that I was trying to make a while ago, before moving to the D300.  I remember image library's accepting pictures from 6 MP DSLR's only, back in 2004/2005.  Now I've come across them stating 10 or 12MP DSLR's.  And I've read in several of their guidlines that "this is to ensure that only professional photographers submit images".  What short memories they must think that we have. 

As I said in one of my previous posts, either we were fed a load of rubbish by the magazines and 6MP cameras were not up to the job (but then where did the double page images come from?) or there is a snobbery designed to keep us having to buy the latest kit.  I think it's teh latter myself, but that leaves us with the sad fact that the reviewers are liars (or have even shorter memories than us). 

martin_hurton:

As I said in one of my previous posts, either we were fed a load of rubbish by the magazines and 6MP cameras were not up to the job (but then where did the double page images come from?) or there is a snobbery designed to keep us having to buy the latest kit.  I think it's teh latter myself, but that leaves us with the sad fact that the reviewers are liars (or have even shorter memories than us). 

 

Call me a cynic  but I remember pre digital when manufactures released a new model every 3 to 5 years and the photographic magazine publishing business shrunk from about a dozen to about three magazines.

Now look how many mags there are now, more cameras every 12 months means more to fill the pages with, more advertising revenue, more magazine sales more jobs more profit.

 Off course its a self perpetuating myth that equipment is everything, theres far to much at stake to say anything else, especially for some of the "expert" photographic journalists that were shooting the occasional pic and article of cows and sheep for the local country mag as journo hacks before the golden goose of digital..told you I was a cynic.