1Ds Mk II files are too big to send!!

[adampacey]

Hi,

I have recently managed to get some work with photo agencies (news/sport) and press passes to some events. I have bought a laptop so I can send my photos from the event to the agencies as I know speed of getting the pictures to them is important to them.

I shoot with a Canon 1Ds Mark II so my file sizes even after JPEG compression is large. As a result when I have tried to email files I have managed to attach 3 to an email - any more than this an I have exceed the maximum mail size with BT Internet so the sending fails. I don't yet have my own website.

Can anyone tell me how they get round this - what is the best way for me to send maybe 15 or 20 files when out on a job?

Thanks for your help in advance

Adam

[mpilar]

Don't most agencies have an FTP server for this sort of thing? Asking won't hurt, but I think FTP is really the only viable answer for getting large amounts of data transfered quickly. Nobody wants their email flooded with 100's of MB of photos to go through, it's just too slow to use for that.

-Mike

[primoz]

As mentioned usual way for sending files to pretty much any agency I ever worked for is ftp. Second... at least those agencies I worked for don't need full size raw (and I don't mean raw as format, but raw as unprocessed) files. Normally standard for most of agencies is between 2000 and 3000pix on longest. This means you can easily make those files smaller. But of course as always there's disclaimer :) Check with agency you are working for what they actually want. If they need 2000pix on longest it's useless to send 5000pix photo. Too slow for you, and too much work for them after they get it.

[KennyG]

I agree keeping the long side to around 2000 pixels if they accept it. I upload to my own FTP server and the publications download at their leisure. I only e-mail files that are used on web sites where they are under 150K.