Traveling Through Digital Waters

Balint and his team have guided Magellan’s through the relatively new waters of digital production. The catalog images—product shots and live models—are captured with MegaVision’s S3 digital camera by Richard Salas, an early adopter and strong proponent of digital image capture. “Richard Salas, as a photographer, costs more per hour than the fellow we had running film through a 2 1⁄4-square camera years ago, but the speed and the accuracy [is better]: I can’t say that we have ever had to go back for retakes, for a reshoot on any of the clothing shots because we saw [potential mistakes] right there,” McManus says.