tardy. very tardy. slipshod even.

It seems to have worked for DP and has allowed them to build a library of nearly 14m files in four years. And we humans do seem to like going to places that have more stuff for sale.

One of my top 100 images is a background of crumpled, brown parcel paper. Okay, the thing is sharp and evenly lit but its still a sheet of paper. As creative people we are rightly concerned about aesthetics and quality but we/I sometimes overlook utility.

What astonishes me is the overwhelming positive reaction in the forum over there (between tasks at work at the moment and so bored I was reading them).  The structure is collapsing and the solution appears to be to hang a new sign on the door?

George Orwell would have called it "Doublethink"

Quote from: ShadySue on September 17, 2013, 08:46

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on September 17, 2013, 08:41

What does "design-crush" mean?

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151602794895825&set=a.433147720824.200423.20425620824&type=1&theater

It'll be a spin on the neologism 'girl-crush', which is used nowadays if you're a heterosexual female but think some other woman is goodlooking.

How trendy.

What they deserve is a ball-crush.

IS/PP have a 30 day window but they're often too feeble to get the window open and sometimes they break it.

They still have 13 sleeps until the end of the month. Have faith.

I wish them well for everyone's sake.

I've a deep mistrust of rebranding as it often looks like someone decided a t*rd might not look like a t*rd if you present it in a nice box tied off with a pink ribbon.

I started to think IS had been taken over by 12 year olds - but I'm beginning to believe IS thinks their customers are 12 years old.

Hit a BME in May/June but sales have dropped to 15% below average in July/August. Feels like strawberries n' cream one quarter but whips and chains the next.

Plan B in the works

Plan 9 From Outer Space might work better.

^^^I'd be very tempted to get the Ricoh GR for street/editorial work and on paper the results would be more than sufficient for microstock editorial - but as I said, I personally find it difficult to compose and shoot using an LCD screen.

http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2013/06/07/the-ricoh-gr-camera-review-the-new-large-sensor-gr-arrives/

But unless someone is kind enough to buy the Ricoh for me as a christmas present I can't have it since my next purchase will be a DSLR - the versatility outweighs all other issues for me personally.

Good grief! There are posts in this thread that are longer than the newsletter! Who would have thought a simple missive would have caused such a furore? The fact is there is a great deal of antipathy towards IS and has been for a couple of years - and it wasn't created on MSG.

I remain convinced IS are trying to turn the business around in some shape or form but can't help feeling they've overcooked the pudding and introduced far too much complexity. Also they have been severely outmanoeuvred by other agencies, especially SS and perhaps even 123rf and DP.

They have a future but whatever that future is remains difficult to fathom when they seem unable to communicate it in a coherent manner and even trample all over their contributor base by not not communicating some stuff at all, or saying they will and then failing to do so. I would dearly like to see something from the very top level to engender confidence in this future. 

Good news that thumbnails are finally going to get bigger.  Hope they make a decent job of it.

Bravo Sir/Madam for finding the lone nugget of goodness in a pile of horse manure

Having used compact film cameras including the Yashica T5D and a Ricoh GR1V for editorial and street work I quite like the look of the new Ricoh GR. But it doesn't have a viewfinder and I've tried and failed to get along without one. I know they have optional things that look like a jeweller's loupe and sit on top but they look stupid.

For a viewfinder with 100% view and full exposure info in the Ricoh, I would happily sacrifice video and live view which I hardly use. In street/editorial work you either got the shot or you missed it. I tend to work in AP most of the time but will even swith to P mode if things are happening fast and I also like the sound of the "snap focus" mode on the Ricoh.

So give me that and I'll use it for fast, unobtrusive street/editorial work, maybe even corporate or private event work - but I can't see myself ever using a compact in the studio or for static stock work - buy a Canon 1100d if you want quality in a small(ish) package.