Quote from: stockmn on October 02, 2015, 15:38

Is there somewhere to go to set all of your extended license prices in bulk?

You can send me an email and I will put in the request for you. I have experimented with EL pricing in my personal portfolio and found very few sales when maximizing the price at 100 credits. Customers are very price sensitive as many that buy extended licenses are buying multiple images. For me, I decided that 60 credits was the right price. I still don't see a large volume of EL sales but definitely more than I did when set to 100. If the price is lower you will probably find more sales. You'll need to decide for yourself of course if you think the volume will counter the lower price.

My email address is: [email protected]

-Mat

I thought the 60 might be the optimal price point because most photos are at 30. 

Is there somewhere to go to set all of your extended license prices in bulk?

I heard that you can just contact Fotolia and ask to to it.

Anybody?

I haven't been able to move up in a year or two now.  LOL.

I think fotolia's extended price of 30 credit is too cheap compare to Shutterstock.  On Shutterstock, I sometimes get more than $60 for a sale of photo.

At Fotolia, default extended use price is 30 credit.  Has anybody experimented with different (higher) price setting to see if you can get more profit? 

I think the default setting price is too cheap and may not maximize our profit.

Anybody with any experience on that?

Also, is there any way to batch change the prices of already uploaded and published files? 

For the first time videoblocks has surpassed Shutterstock and P5  in september and the differences are huge. But maybe I had better luck, who knows !?

Wow!  That's so fast!

New iPhone shoots 4k video.

[trollmode]Im just going to give a detailed report so that i can help more people join them (and -god forbid- blame me later on when/if they totally screw us up) plus i like it when my sales become diluted by other contributors,in fact i love it so much.[/trollmode]

Had 5 sales in August (starting from August 1st when my first clips were approved) with about 300-400 clips online at the time of the last sale during that period.
With double the portfolio i had 15 sales this month alone.
All hd and most of them propably bought from US ground so i got taxed.

Wow!  You're on a roll.  Congrats!

If if you look at the SS sales insights, most images have less than 10 keywords that people search for. In some rare cases, it goes from 15-20. They encourage more keywords because it increases the chance that someone will find your image.

If you have a picture of a flower. There is a chance that someone will find it by searching it's scientific name, as opposed to flower or spring. 10 relevant keywords is better than 50 non-relevant keywords. If you do your research and you get the keywords right, you don't need 50 of them.

I personally like to fill in at least 40 because in some cases, I don't know what keyword will work best.

Thanks for your insight.

Keywording is still a bit of a mystery to me. What I have noticed is that you need sales to increase sales. I have made improved versions of my best selling clips but the old ones still sell better.
I did add a few keywords for the new ones so that didn't help, probably the search engines rank sales (and views?) above keyword matching.

That's a good point.  Some of my bestsellers on Pond5 have only like 10 keywords.

I'll be carrying both of my Canon 5DMKIII and Sigma DP2 Merrill or Quattro on my daylight stock photo shoot.  I think at the same focal length situation, DP2 Merrill or Quattro will beat 5DMKIII's image quality.  It's a totally different sensor from ordinary Bayer sensor.  Also, it's a very handy camera to carry with all the time instead of big DSLR.

I don't know why there are so many angry photographers here.  LOL.

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Quote from: helloitsme on September 01, 2015, 09:36

It's an impressive camera and actually better than Canon 5D MKIII in low ISO situation.

Impressive camera but you never held one? Or impressive specs and marketing for a compact camera?

15mp fovian sensor makes 46mp. Small battery, slow, don't go over 400ISO. You can only use their camera software to process images. 4fps for 7 frames is not impressive. Good if you shoot outdoors, flowers with no wind or things that are standing still in the studio. VGA video.

Sigma 50mm f2.8 on the DP3 is a nice lens and so is the DP2 sporting a 41mm f2.8

This is hardly better then a Canon 5D MKIII in any way. You get what you pay for. Sigma DP is a toy camera with novel features.

Dude, do your research before you scream at somebody like a crazy person.
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1206282/0

https://luminous-landscape.com/sigma-dp2m-review/


Why are you so angry for no reason?  It's not good for you.  Calm down.

From your link:

What�s Wrong

� stumbling autofocus in low light

� slow buffer writes, even with fast cards. No further image review till buffer is empty

� only VGA quality video

� slowish lens

� very poor battery life (two batteries are provided)

� high-res bright but laggy (wobbly) rear live view LCD

� poor image quality above ISO 400

� occasional banding when colour values are pushed hard in B&W rendition, such as blue skies

� poorly designed raw software, with no superior alternatives currently available, or likely to come

� occasional strange colour reproduction, colour transitions � especially around reds, and blotchyness. Not sure if this is the sensor or the SPP software

� manual focus only works as an adjunct to AF with a half shutter press. It is locked out when AF lock is activated

� Auto-ISO won�t use ISO 100, even in the brightest situations. Maybe this is to compensate for the camera not having stabilization

� my camera has two dust spots on the sensor, unforgivable in an non-interchangable lens camera with a non-retracting lens

It's fine if the camera happens to be really good for what you happen to use it for. Doesn't make it better than a 5DIII though.

Ultimately, it is a bit of a "one trick pony" with alot of issues. Sure, it has a lens that is very well matched to the sensor so it produces very sharp images. Beyond that it certainly isn't on par with a FF DSLR.

To each their own though. Whatever floats your boat.

Sigma DP2 Merrill beats full Canon 5D MKIII in low ISO (200 and 100) daylight or on tripod situation.  Yes, it's a limited use, but this small camera beats 5D MKIII in those frequently used situation.