I wonder if the OP who wrote this post actually bought a camera? Or, since it was his/her one and only post, went the more sensible route of failed photographers and started an agency or photography school?

However, if we're keeping this thread current for interested visitors, I'd recommend a used entry level canon 1000d and the the fantastic plastic 50mm 1.8 which if used within their limitations still provide plenty of scope for learning the craft on a budget and the opportunity of making some real folding money at the same time.

The lines of geeks outside Apple stores in their Minecraft and Star Wars tee shirts who will die on the spot if they fail to get their hands on the thing right now, this very minute, always make for a good editorial photo op.

Anyone here who is self-employed must realize you cannot rely/depend/hope/expect the people you do business with to look after your own interests....and if they fail in that you sell to someone else or you find something else to sell.

I appreciate that may seem too simplistic and unpalatable for many contributors - but this has been a cold hard truth in microstock for years. If you haven't experienced that elsewhere in business then I can understand the degree of umbrage expressed here - but for many I suspect the energy and time wasted trying to bring SS or any other agency into line with their own expectations is more profitably deployed elsewhere.

How it should be. Like clockwork, month on month. Fair play to them for starting early(ish) two months in a row. Keep it up.

A laser beam to disintegrate little old ladies who wander into frame and ruin the decisive moment.

I'm quite clever but as usual with IStock's communications I'll probably have to read it three times to understand it fully. They sound quite pleased with themselves though - and no doubt pranced out of the launch meeting convinced these measures will propel them into a glorious future. Always a bad sign.

Happy to be independent and on 10 megapixels.

Whilst I detest what the NT are doing, if you can't find a million and one other things in England to photograph besides bits of coastline, stately homes and castles you're in the wrong business.

I agree with Dook since I neither use or understand the need for about 50% of the functionality on modern cameras, especially crap like scene modes and creative filters.

If I must, I would like a more capable but still very small inbuilt flash which would also be detachable and wi-fi enabled.

If September works out then it could be a best quarter ever - but DT usually tosses my portfolio onto the "ignore" pile one month out of three.

It even happens on a daily basis e.g. yesterday a big fat zero day followed up this morning with a 26 credit TIFF sale that had me choking on my cornflakes.

I uploaded about 500 images four years ago just to see what might happen and made enough lolly to buy a pair of cheap socks. Closed and long forgotten.

Not as famous as his dog(s)

RC count has been frozen for 6-8 weeks for me - but the whole thing is academic since I'm 6,000 away from the next level with the year more than half over - it might as well be 60,000

Still the slowest site on Earth.