Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/07

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Subject: [Leica] Compact cameras
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 19:34:40 -0500
References: <AANLkTikv_KEm9JT7pbuh=2zF56LaxFFy9o19MTf6ax=s@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTim5Rqf43OTZJAMN062+zZis4HAFHqpYyVpREnFA@mail.gmail.com> <7DBBB0EA-DCDA-4120-BFB7-424511951AED@frozenlight.eu> <AANLkTiknEgKeeTzLpuALopN4B8AnSfN9VQJy3WCNVWCg@mail.gmail.com>

Tina,

I seem to recall that once you posted a guide or book to selling stock 
photography, which I now cannot find.  If so, could you please repost?

Regards,

Ken Carney
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

On 8/7/2010 7:04 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> Thanks, Nathan, but Alamy will allow any kind of garbage, as long as it
> passes the technical quality control.  Alamy does not edit for content.
>   They leave that totally up to contributors.  That's why Alamy currently 
> has
> almost 20 million photos on file.  If anybody needs a photo of anything,
>   Alamy has it.  In some ways that is great.  I've sold photos through 
> Alamy
> that I would never think of submitting to any other agency.  In some ways
> it's awful.  Buyers have to wade through pages and pages of garbage to find
> the nugget that they want.  Accurate keywords and searches are the secret.
>   The approved camera list at least weeds out some micro-stock wannabes.
>   Since they have 20 million photos on file and many searches return an
> unmanageable number of photos, the only way to cut down on submissions is 
> to
> limit approved cameras and to crack down on quality control - which they
> have done.
>
> Tina
>
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Nathan Wajsman<photo at frozenlight.eu>  
> wrote:
>
>    



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