Canon 1D vs Kodak Digital Back

[AdrianvBarrera]

I am currently thinking about shooting for stock, I don't want to do slides due to the high cost. Will a Canon 1D suffice in the stock arena or will something like a Kodak digital pro back on a Contax 645 be a more adequate tool.



The cost is less of a consideration. I would really like to shoot with the 1D but if the images will not be admitted to most stock libraries or if the file size will hurt sales then the Digital back might be the way to go.


Has anybody else come across this decision?...and what was your choice and why.


Thanks
Adrian

[mrchips]

If you have $30,000 + to spend on the digital back, camera and lenses, and need 16 MegaPixels pics hey go for it. Last time I looked the Kodak back was $23,000 bucks.

The publisher I work for uses a fair amount of stock photos for 6 color offset work. We have used oneof my photos for a small publication and it seemed as good as stock for the size photo we used. It was taken on a d30 so I'm guessing the 1D would do ok for that job.

I know the Kodak back is portable but its huge files do need a hard drive to dump to not somethjing for running around the country side with. I doubt a microdrive would hold many.