This web site is operated by Little Guy Media, the digital photography training company headed up by Rob Galbraith.
The site known originally as robgalbraith.com was first launched in 1996, as an exercise in self-publishing documentary photo stories. Starting in mid-2000, it has evolved into an online resource for working digital photographers featuring regularly-updated news and a database of CompactFlash and SD performance data. In 2003, the site was renamed Rob Galbraith Digital Photography Insights, to emphasize our mandate of providing reliable, practical and we hope insightful information on digital photography and digital technology.
Today, Rob Galbraith DPI is a part-time endeavor for three people:
Publisher/Co-Editor Rob Galbraith
As a staff photographer at the Calgary Herald, Rob Galbraith was dragged kicking and screaming into the electronic age when the paper began its conversion to all-NC2000 digital photography in mid-1994.
A trip to Rwanda in December of that year, shooting and transmitting via satellite phone nothing but NC2000 images, convinced him that digital was the future of photojournalism. In 1995, Galbraith shot the first picture captured with a digital camera to be nominated for a National Newspaper Award, one of Canadian journalism's highest honours.
In the summer of 1998 he left the safe cocoon of a staff job at the paper to pursue digital photography education full time. Since then, he has consulted to over 200 news organizations, top-tier photographers and digital product manufacturers worldwide and has led dozens of seminars on the use of digital cameras in professional photography. He is also the author of The Digital Photojournalist's Guide, a 400-page book on the use of digital cameras in photojournalism that spanned 4 editions in its time.
He currently works as a freelance editorial photographer, digital photography trainer and workflow consultant and is based in Calgary, Canada.
Co-Editor Mike Sturk
Mike Sturk is a freelance photographer doing a variety of editorial work for clients such as EPA (European PressPhoto Agency), Canadian Press and Spruce Meadows (a show jumping facility) in Calgary, Canada.
Prior to that, Sturk worked for the Calgary Herald for 13 years, first on a freelance basis, then later as a staff photographer (Galbraith and Sturk worked in the photo department together through most of the '90s).
Says Sturk: " Galbraith bailed me out of digital and computer-related trouble so many times (and often in the middle of the night) at far-off assignments in The Netherlands and Kuwait that I'm still paying him back by working on the site here."
Sturk is shown at left covering Calgary Flames hockey with an early Kodak DCS digital camera.
Staff Writer Eamon Hickey
Eamon Hickey is a freelance writer based in New York City. During a 12-year stint in the photo industry, he was a technical and sales representative for Nikon Inc. (popularly known as Nikon USA), a photography teacher and consultant, and an occasional professional photographer.
His photography writing has appeared in Fortune, Wired, Computer Shopper, Macaddict, and digitalFOTO magazines, as well as on the Internet at CNET, ZDNET, and Microsoft.com. He also writes about business, as well as messing around with the occasional short humor piece, some fiction, and frequent, largely unsuccessful attempts at amusing e-mails.
A skilled interviewer and writer, Hickey has authored many of the best-read features on this site.
