[OT] Miniatures Pictures (for manufacturers etc)

> Allan Goodall wrote:

Not going there, not looking, don't wanna know...

I keep saying the same to Jon T but he hasnt sent me a complete set of all his
figures and vehicles yet;)

> Allan Goodall wrote:
wrote:
> >So ideally, it'd be nice to see both. And in this day of digital

FWIW, our site costs c.£50 (~$75) per year for 30Mb of space. I don't think
we have a bandwidth limitation. For this we have to put up with some (very
small) banners which can go anywhere on the page (I always put them at the
bottom).

One mistake many sites make is in not compressing their image files -
JPEGs can be cut down to 10-20% of their original size without much loss
in visible quality. This cuts down on both bandwidth and webspace
requirements.

> I suspect the main reason is just the amount of time it takes to

Assembling, painting and photographing an entire range is a *heck of a lot of
work*. This has to be the major bottleneck in getting pictures
on-line. We pride ourselves in having (almost) every model illustrated
on the site in some form or other (even if in some cases it's just a
crude scan of the original master) - but our product list is very small
compared to mainstream manufacturers (around 250 models). I have a
long-term plan of rephotographing everything with consistent
backgrounds, decent lighting, regular sized pics, painted / unpainted
versions, unassembled versions of multipart kits, etc, etc.... but probably
not in the near future.

> I suspect the main reason is just the amount of time it takes to

Yes we did. I think it came out of me asking what people thought made a good
manufacturers website. Pictures was the biggy!

I'm still trying to get pendraken to send me more miniatures to scan and put
on their website. I convinced PMCgames to go the route of pictures (another
website I do) I don't know if anyone has done a survey into the increase in
sales due to pictures but I bet it is significant.

Jeremey