"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all [....] are created equal."

I've seen that somewhere else. Of course it's a ridiculous lie that no sensible person would believe.

Quote from: Photostocker on September 04, 2017, 04:48

They must pay us more like the old times! This is ridiculous!

What "old" times do you mean?

When I started contributing to iStock twelve years ago, I got 10c for every download. Now I get a lot more.

You're misremembering. By April 2004 the commission at iStock was 10c, 20, and 30c, depending on the size of image downloaded. What was good about those times was that almost anything got downloaded frequently, whereas now even outstanding images may not sell at all. But you knew that...

Quote from: DallasP on September 06, 2017, 22:46

On my 50mm that's the only way I HAVEN'T got flickering ... in manual why would the camera change anything at all when your intervalometer triggers? Internal software change or something?

No, every time you take a picture the aperture closes down to f8 (or whatever you set it to) and then it opens back up to fully open (1.8 on your 50 mm perhaps?). The aperture blades are mechanical and do not close down EXACTLY the same every time = flicker. Just look into your lens and you can see it yourself.

That is why the lens twist method is used, to lock the aperture in place.

Old manual focus (and manual aperture) lenses should avoid that problem and are available really cheap. Nikkors seem to be best and almost all will fit to Canon dslrs via an adapter (the 28mm f3.5 has a light baffle that would need removing to avoid fouling the mirror on full frame) There are good Zeiss Jena lenses, too, but you need to be sure your mirror won't clip the back of them if you use full-frame, and they are more likely to get  mechanical problems than the Nikkors.  If you want a really cheap but good zoom lens there is the Zoom-Nikkor 80-200 mm f/4.5 that can be picked up in "like new" condition for much less than $100. Mine gives excellent images with just a tiny bit of CA on a Canon 6D, the only problem with it is that if it is pointed up or down the zoom ring will creep.
For a really good assessment of legacy nikkor lenses check out http://www.naturfotograf.com/lens_surv.html

Captcha is telling me to use a supported browser (I'm on firefox/linux) to log in. I've never encountered that before and I'm not keen on being told what to do by an anti-robot app.

Oh dear, that's bad news. It's pretty much the last man standing among the sites I've supplied. I guess we're approaching "game over".

There's always the possibility that they are batch processing sales rather than posting them all one at a time. The data page already says: *Updated approximately every 15 minutes.  So the process isn't immediate in any case.

I like buying a cheap body because I don't think it matters much.  The money I save goes on lenses.  I do like having different sensor sizes, from full frame to my phone.  They all have their uses.  I have spent more on camera bodies in the past but it seemed like wasted money.

I can't agree with that. I went from the old Digital Rebel to a Canon 5D to 5d MkII to 6D and each time the new body came with huge improvements over the previous one, among them the introduction of automatic sensor cleaning in the 5DII, improved low-light performance in each newer body, automatic CA correction in the 6D along with GPS and lots of other stuff.  The bodies are constantly being improved.

The main point, I think, is that it is costing a lot of people a lot of money when similar programs are available free. I see now that Gimp and Darktable are available to run on Windows and Mac, too, so you don't need to do the whole linux thing.
It's worth giving them a go if you want to save money while staying legal. The interface is quite similar to PS and LR.

Are you going to pursue it with them? In my few dealings I've always found them responsive to a reasonable question. I does sound very odd.

Yeah, I fired off a note to them a couple of hours back - so we'll see.

At one time iStock said they wouldn't bother with following up complaints like this from non-exclusive contributors because they could not tell if the file had been licensed from somewhere else on different terms.

I could see their point, but it wasn't a very contributor friendly approach.

I've just sent them a picture I took today of the Emir's administrative palace (the Diwan) in the centre of Doha with a caption about the Emir meeting the French Foreign minister in Doha today (presumably at the palace, though the location hasn't been given on the news wires). We'll see if they take it - it's different from earlier Emiri Diwan pictures because there are large yellow construction machines parked in its grounds.
Oh! It's just passed!

Here's some Live News I captured today...don't think the cops were too happy to see me taking their pic (maybe they were getting bribed), fk them, we live in a democracy

Well, if they were getting bribed its news - otherwise it's three cops and three black guys in a park which is a non-event.