I find LO is easier, just one click after uploading.  How do you do that with FP?  I have to go through every image I have uploaded.  If it is 100 images, it takes a lot longer.
LO is still ahead of FP for me, is it your extra efforts with FP that have made the difference?

Ah... that's called work. If all work was as easy as uploading to FP, I would be in heaven   

But if you don't want to work, you can just specify the same price and specs for all photos. One click for each, except the first one. Can't become much easier than that.

Actually, I have more sales on LO than on FP, but since most of the sales at LO are 0.30, and those at FP are 3.50 or more.... well, you do the math   

At the moment, IS. There are real advantages being exclusive there. DT could be an alternative. Not SS, since I'm not sure about the long term potential of subscription prices.

Yes, one month after you pass the payout limit.

SS is dying for me as well, in spite of weekly, and sometimes daily, uploads. There are two problems with SS:

- To start with, they were the only subscription site. They are not any more, and with the competitors, customers can switch between subscription and regular downloads, more or less from month to month. For photographers, that means that subscription sales will be spread more thinly between many agencies.

- There's a real risk that SS long-term is over-saturating its own market. Those who have had subscriptions for a number of years, build their own picture archives, so a subscription will, after a certain amount of time, be less interesting. One of the reasons for the high earnings at SS, is just that: customers download images that they may need in the future, as long as they have quotas left to do so.

As long as the market increases among agencies that pay more, I'm not worried, but I doubt we'll see SS being as dominant in the future as they have been up until now.

It's quite remarkable that in the space of three or four months SV has launched and managed to become the laughing stock of the microstock industry.  That's quite an achievement.

The laughing stock title I believe belongs to LO. After a year of hard work, they have finally achieved what I thought not possible for an agency that stirs up so much dust: none of my images have had a single sale for two months   

Snaptown, I believe, isn't even officially launched yet.

I would look at the Nikon D80, which gives you more possibilities than the D40 (more manual control, better viewfinder, autofocuses with AF-D lenses etc.).

The Olympus E-510 is also a nice possibility. The Zuiko kit-lenses are excellent, and you get in-body IS, live-view and a very efficient dust removal.

I can't really see what is sensational about this. I have had at least a couple of photos at 800 taken with the old E-1 accepted at IS as well as SS this year, and the E-1 is universally accepted as one of the worst high ISO cameras. The key is obviously correct exposure. With the D3, getting ISO 6400 photos should not be a problem, judging from the samples I've seen.

Another important point, is that IS, at least in my experience, will often accept a really good photo, even if it has some noise, while SS won't.

It must be said though, that I would really, really like to have the D3. Do I really need that second kidney 

I always do a "Select All" and "Copy" before I click on that, so that I can paste them back  in again if it happens, and it does sometimes.

Views are increasing every day, but very few sales so far.

SS is not doing so well for me. Increasing sales at IS, DT and FT compensates for that, and the gap is getting smaller.

LO is grinding towards a halt for me. haven't had a sale there since 9 October. Actually, I hardly have views there anymore. I've had twice as many views at Snapvillage, still in beta, in two months as at LO in a year.

Actually, my earnings at Featurepics are four times those at LO, and FP isn't exactly the Speedy Gonzales of this business.

The fact that some have good sales there while others have next to none, makes me suspicious. Since I'm selling well at other agencies, the reason must be in their search engine and the way it promotes photos.

Sorry to say, but for me, LO sucks big time.

But this is so eeeeezy   

"Paper-clip on white background" becomes "Beautiful, little paper-clip on a clean, snowy white background with small touches of sensor dust". That's going from 5 to 15 words, and I haven't even started describing the little ant that passed over the white sheet of paper just prior to taking my photo   

Correction: that was me taking a photo of the paper-clip, NOT the ant taking a photo of me. Just in case anybody wonders...