AG Schnozz wrote:
> Ok, maybe I need to beg forgiveness for trash-talking Olympus
> these past few days. I would hope that you all understand that
> this is out of supreme frustration with my current situation.
You don't have to beg for forgiveness from me or from anyone else on the
list I imagine. I don't judge you though I am concerned about your
sanity. :)
> However, I am losing money here. I'm running into restrictions
> with stock agencies and for high-detail art shots, I have a
> maximum print-size I can go up to with 5MP. A year ago, 11x14
> was an acceptable "large" print. Nowadays, 20x30" is. The
> average sale prices haven't necessarily gone up, but the
> quantity of sales of the smaller prints have gone down. The
> price I got for an 11x14 two years ago is now the average price
> for a print with double the surface area. Smaller 5x7 sized art
> prints (with big matting) are still the same, and any camera
> will suffice.
>
> The Canon 5D has completely changed the "landscape" here. In
> the stock world, I'm now competing against these. The 20D/30D
> with 8MP is now no longer acceptable. What totally flipped me
> out this week was getting a rejection on over 125 images which
> were carefully worked to get absolutely the best quality on.
> The total time-loss on these images was around two man-weeks.
> They were not rejected for any reason other than "interpolation
> artifacts" and "lack of clarity/detail". Previous submittions
> with lesser quality were easily accepted, but no more. When I
> inquired about it, I was told that they were no longer going to
> accept any images taken with a camera less than 10MP.
>
> Now, YOU TELL ME what I'm supposed to do? If this is a source
> of income required to buy food, it pretty much defines my
> minimum equipment needs.
I figured you were having trouble with stock agencies and is why I wrote
in my original post that I was aware that others who used photography as
their main source of income would require camera improvements at a
quicker rate than I. As far as solutions go, one list member mentioned
that you could buy an E-400 from Europe when released... I'm sure there
are many here that would help you with that. Maybe you could expand
upon another area of your business and let go of the stock agency side
of things. Heck, 6 months from now they will probably be requiring a
minimum of a 14MP submission. I remember when you told me that it was
8MP and that wasn't that long ago. Or just slowly switch brands... no
one here would think the less of you, at least I wouldn't.
Richard L
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