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For those of you who upgraded from a 40D or an XSI to a higher quality camera (like a 5D), have you noticed an increase in sales? It seems that whenever I'm looking at iStockphoto, the pictures that are created from 5D and greater cameras sell a lot more. Maybe it's just my imagination. Most people say that the lenses are more important than the camera bodies, which is why I'm asking whether or not it really matters that much. Thanks for your responses.

I noticed at least at Istock that the zoom feature could be used a lot. I have great looking images at thumbnail size that are not that much great at 100% who never sell there while it sell elsewhere more often. Mostly old ones from when I started stock.

But still I can't say it's because of the zoom feature. I had one who have been initially rated by the reviewer who have sold like 40 times in a short period. There could be some kind of rating who play also and not the contributors ones

This is a very good topic. I will upgrade my dslr in a few months and I'll be interested in whether camera type has an effect on sales. Maybe an admin from a stock agency can come and post something in this thread...?

LMAO.... )))))) You're funny dude. Getting a 5d, huh?

Alight people, I will try an experiment with removing all the EXIF before uploading and see how it goes. Or maybe even better, changing the info, making the camera type the EOS 5d mentioned above..?

I had a greater number of pictures rejected on istock with Canon 5D (i rented it) than with Nikon D80 and I had way more pictures made with D80. So...your photo gotta be good and clean and well isolated, obviously. 5d reveals more details which can make things more complex to isolate.

question is: are the photos taken with your camera good enough?
I have a nikon d200 and i see a lot of noise in the dark area also in the shot taken at 100 Iso in the full day light. Of course it will be rejected or over filtered if you try to remove noise.
So better camera better accetance rate i think. Any similar experience?

I moved up from a Nikon D-70 and Tokina 80-200 ATX f/2.8 to a Nikon D-300 and the Nikkor 70-200 F/2.8 VR combination.  My acceptance rating improved on every site except iStock by about 20 to 30 percent.

My sales are pretty much unchanged.  So I figure that the sales are more related to the demand for the particular subject matter after the image has been accepted.  Photogs using models or people in general tend to do much better than those reluctant or unable to  work with models due to cost or just not being interested in using models.  I suppose many shy away from people shots as they do not like getting model releases signed.

On a final note, I doubt if I will earn enough over the next three years to reimburse me for the cost of my equipment.  So the equipment I use will generate more accepted images on the five sites I will continue to support, but it is doubtful that my images will sell any better.  In fact I haven't uploaded to four of the five sites for the past four months.  I just haven't had the desire to go on a shoot.  I'm beginning to think that pretty near every possible subject has already been shot.  Guess you can tell I don't take things seriously anymore.