They say that Skrill is old name for money...

I abandoned that ship because they changed my acc. type from personal to business, with 2,90% of fee on every transaction...

I received 16,80$ yesterday, as single image sale! 
What is it, usual is cca 5$?

That's funny, I can't see any comments on this thread.

Hahahahahahahahahah!

Good one! 

recently got to 17, had 18

Wow Louis...!

But, I haven't seen in your posts any reason to put you on someone's ignore list...
Quite opposite...


P.S.
Mine ignore list is empty, and probably will stay empty..

Yep!
We can see a lot of frivolous newbie topics lately...

Many young adults without job want to provoke some comments from us here, so they can make some conclusions, does it worth of effort or not?
Most of them are interested only for money, not too much for photography....

Hahahaha! Why just Corbis and Veer, why not SS, or FT!?

They want to destroy them or what?

No comfort there then!  

Yep! I am ready for southern comfort....

I have also BME, but last two days are bad...

What will be if agencies change size and prices one step backward? From XXL to XL and XL to L etc.
So maybe we don't need now extra MPs, but tomorrow who knows...

Also if a have great details on ISO 100 , that probably  mean these 36MPs allow me certainly better framing (maybe panorama look), or even two pictures from one...
If I have less details on image due to bad lighting or higher ISO, I am able to downsize image to 20MP or less and still get excellent image...
Unfortunately, I've had many potential "best sellers", made from a hand in crucial unexpected moment, but because low sharpness or noise and less MPs they were ended in recycle bin...
So more MPs isn't just story for amateurs with compact camera..

Also there is another big thing here! Price of the best optics from both, Nikon and Canon....

You know that Battle for Haditha is a movie not a documentary right?

Yep! But certainly is more realistic than many war movies in the same time... I think that this movie will not motivate any teenager to give his life for his country (what a paradox, what is your country without your life, from your point of view..?. )
Can we notice now that movie is not always just an entertainment ?

Quote from: Graffoto on March 20, 2012, 23:57

Its called the entertainment industry for a reason. Its purpose is to make money, not accurate historical documentaries.
Yes, Americans like to feel good about themselves and will pay money to watch films where the Americans are the good guys and always win.
Don't go around using movies made for entertainment purposes as true of how the film makers or the Americans see themselves. Take it for what it is. Entertainment.

Yes, you can call it entertainment or whatever, but movies will affect the viewer in a subtle way even if the viewer knows it's only fiction and entertainment.

PS. The best war movies: Das Boot http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/ Der Untergang http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363163/
Yes movies like Saving Private Ryan looks good and has great battle scenes, but it's still stupid heroic action crap.

Good point and excellent choice...

Yes! "Saving private Ryan" is good film in production matter, but as you say another heroic story... But I think is step forward... Especially "Letters from Ivo Jima"
Serial "Band of Brothers" is better story, also heroic but with many examples of stupidity of war...

P.S.

I am not talking only about the American audience, I'm talking about all audience which can be motivated  with war desire...
There is no big differences in kids age between 15 and 18 years ...
But 18 years old kid offically can carry uniform and lethal gun...

Quote from: borg on March 20, 2012, 04:50

Quote from: jbarber873 on March 19, 2012, 22:26

Quote from: borg on March 17, 2012, 06:23

(remember Rambo 3 and his Taliban allies  ).

     Scholarly research! This explains a lot of your posts.

What do you mean with this?

I guess that he's laughing at your sources

So, as you can see in that post, I am also laughing at my source...
But if you look at the whole palette of movies, the situation regarding "film propaganda" isn't any more so humoristic ...
Rambo 3 is certainly something different than Italian documentary mentioned in my first post...
I am sure that movie was little part of propaganda in that time... Why today, there is no new movies about western alliance with the Taliban from that time?
This period of human history is no more interesting or what? We know that movies about ww2 are still making...



I recently watched some a bit older movie "Hostel" in Tarantino's production ... In which American tourists were killed in a brutal manner,because of greed for money of eastern European mafia...
The story is happening in Slovakia,  after "the war" during 90-ties ... ..
In Slovakia, there was no war since WW2!
That is veeery peaceful country with much bigger security level than in many European or American countries...

That tells you how big is "competence" of great Hollywood directors and scenarists...
Or maybe this is part of the "travel guide" for  touristic industry...

This would be my transition from Nikon to Canon.

What is reason for switching?

I think D800 is much better machine thank MkIII, also D800 is in the middle with price, between MK2 and MK3...

People, evil does not exist!
The concept of "true evil" is only a tool for homogenization of religious population in the history ... That is a way of controlling with good old fear ...
Evil as a fact can only be characterized as a negative action to the specific person or group ...
Before evil as a fact, often precedes a misleading or fallacy due to some misfortunes suffered in the past, despair, ignorance, or propaganda for hidden interests under the auspices of the struggle for freedom, what often leads people in wrong conclusion that they are doing some good thing...
As a concept, evil is a paradox!
Just ask yourself: what evil will do when succeed to conquer all goodness ...? Will become good, or will destroy itself...

In global, evil is just an interest on expense of others, as BaldricksTrousers said!
Everything is relative!
What is hunter for his family, and what is for his prey?

Nazzzzis were convinced that doing a good thing (like soviets, or today guess who), which means that through history the greatest evil is is committed in the name of goodness ... Also with adding of any of uncritical religions, we have rutted the path to collective suffering...

This is called the "illusion of freedom," regardless of the social system ...

Digression that I can see in your comments and conflicting attitudes is just impact of an old propaganda and some kind of public education in your lives in different countries ...
I lived and grew up on the border between two main political systems  of 20st century, and what is worst at all, we know advantages and disadvantages of these two ideological camps...
Do you know the definition of communism, without googling?  What was main "danger" which come from communism for your "freedom" in western countries...
And opposite, same question for "free capitalism"...

Many Hollywood movies (as a part of propaganda) were frightening  Western world with communism (remember Rambo 3 and his Taliban allies  ). So its likely that people who were watching those movies still have an aversion but they don't know how to explain that...
You saw positive excitement and reactions of Westerners who participated on "Stock Photo Expo" (or named similar)  in Moscow, after they returned ...
Perhaps they expected something completely different, from mentality to standard...