At present the 5D appears to be the 'perfect' instrument for microstock in terms of quality and price ...

If Nikon launch a '5D equivalent' I'd buy it immediately, but the prospect of that looks like being a year or more away.

Isn't the D3 Nikon's equivalent?

Hey, thanks for that!

I didn't realise that the buyout price went up according to the number of sales. I never accept their default of $350 when uploading and usually put something between $750 and $1000 depending on what I feel about the image. It's pretty subjective.

But I've just checked some of my best-selling images and DT's recommended price is now way above what I've suggested. Have to do some tweaking.

However ... I must say I don't understand the reasoning behind DT's strategy. Surely, the more times an image has been sold, the less likely a buyer wants exclusivity.

I mean, if dozens of people have bought an image before you, with the right to use it RF, surely that makes it less desirable, so the price should go down.

Thanks for your feedback everyone. I know it was rather a 'How Long is a Piece of String' question, but I have almost no experience in this area. I've now got some useful links I can work on.

The main reason I want to set up the website is to showcase my work ... not sell anything through the site as such, but direct people to places where they can buy it. Of course, I've got photographs for sale with all the usual agencies, but I also write books. Have just published one of photographs and poems, and I have another on basic photography techniques being published in the UK in September. Thought I'd better get myself a web presence.

Also all my building shots, even when its a small part of the building.

I don't see how they can reject photographs of buildings. That would cut their library enormously. Are you sure there wasn't a sign or something on the building?

Anyway ... in most western countries (certainly in the UK and here in Switzerland) most photographs taken from public land need no property release. (I know ... there are exceptions like the London Eye).

IMHO Lizard's second one, coupled with a touch of with black gradient added to the sky would work best. In the third one the colours appear to be too saturated and, as someone else had pointed out, the cloud's blown.

... and they found one for the front cover of their tourist brochure.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=A0AV1VCTQGCYRQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/13/npamphlet113.xml

Maybe there's hope for some of my rejects still   

What happens if no one's smiling in the picture ...

... the sensor goes into an endless loop searching for the smile and burns itself out?

Vonkara -

Did they politely ask, or did they actually "demand" the RAW file as you wrote?

In a number of languages 'demand' (it's equivalent) doesn't have the same imperative force that it does in English. In French, for example, 'demander' simply means 'to ask'.

Thanks Madelaide

The comments and responses are so cool

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Aw ... gee ... I'm still ploughing through mine.

When I do it, I order them in Downloads/month and its the really slow sellers at the bottom of the list that I've still got to do, so I don't feel so much pressure to get them finished.

How are you doing with Alamy's version of disambiguation?   

I'm pretty sure that they are interest-free.

These loans are to individuals who, for the most part, seem to be ready and willing to pay them back. By our standards they're tiny loans and, to us, any interest on them would be negligible. But to the recipients, having to pay interest on them could mean the difference between success and failure.

As as I'm concerned my 'interest' on a loan would be the knowledge that I'm helping someone set up an independent business and pull themselves out of poverty.