National Geographic tries digital photography
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In the summer of 2002, Joe McNally was waging a campaign. He wanted two things - his tenth assignment from National Geographic magazine and permission to shoot it digitally - and he had a good story to help him make his case… Geographic began discussing an article that would become the cover story of this month’s (December 2003) issue, commemorating the centennial of the Wright brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk. Although the magazine had published plenty of digital photos, it had never assigned a major story to be covered entirely with digital photography before. McNally and his long-time picture editor at the magazine, Bill Douthitt, wanted to give it a try…
