The new Sigma seems to be a great little camera. I would love to have one. Wonder what the price will be, and how I can find an excuse to buy one 

The best part will be when MS in 6-7 years finds out that it "forgot" to make camera manufacturers aware of the fact that they should pay a license fee for the new standard. If all of them have adapted it by then, which is absolutely possible, the $0.02 for each camera will see to that Bill Gates' retirement fund is again back in the black 

No... that was a cynical thought.... they could never.... shame on you Jorgen, for making up things like this...   

Probably looks great on the camera LCD. Lots of photos don't make it further anyway, so maybe it's a good thing   

I wish they would make the submitting process less of a hassle instead of these useless updates. 

We may have misunderstood the concept. The whole idea with istock is possibly to create a full time hobby for the contributors. The more hours invested, the better. More time consuming features are just added steps towards fulfillment of that task, and for the creation of the ever happy, happy istock family who contributes with ecstatic enthusiasm to fill the coffers of the mother of all stock: Getty Images

I wonder how grainy the images will be though...

See here for more details:

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0703/07030705kodakpma.asp

It's called marketing.

I can't sort "my uploads" after "Last Download". Does anyone else have that problem?

Quote from: epixx on March 06, 2007, 14:25

The reason seems to be that both the D40 (old version) and the D80 runs circles around the EOS 400D and 30D.

Wow, what a statement!

I can tell that you are a die-hard Nikon fan.

I do have an F-mount Fuji S3, but no Nikons, and an Olympus E-1 for rainy days and travel. For lenses, I would actually prefer Canon, since they have fast primes that I prefer to use. However, if I should choose a camera body today, the features and ergonomics of the Nikons are impossible to ignore, particularly the D40/80/200 trio.

One could always argue that the Canons have better high-ISO performance, but the difference is very small now, so ergonomics, features and lenses will be important to many. Nikon's amateur lenses also seem to be excellent value.

The change in the Japanese market is rather dramatic, since Canon had a very comfortable lead until last autumn. However, neither the 30D nor the 400D brought much new, except for the anti-dust in the 400. This is a big contrast to the three Nikons, which were all completely new cameras when they were released, all of them within a period just exceeding 12 months.

The recent launch of the 10mp D40X, which will supplement but not replace the D40, and the apparently excellent 55-200mm AF-S VR, just strengthens Nikon's lead here. I must say I'm very tempted to buy the D40X as a compact backup for my S3, even if it can't AF with most of my lenses.

It may be a font problem. Try to make outlines of the text and see if that helps. Do you use a Mac or a PC?

I've had a couple of those "too many like this already" rejects at StockXpert again, and I was asking myself as a designer if that's good or not.

When I download photos, I look for an agency that has lots of variations over the same theme. Choice is king, and as long as there's not too much keyword spamming, there simply can't be to much of a good thing. The fact that most of the micros have lots of second rate images dating back to their start-up period makes this even more important. If the old photos aren't removed, the only way to make them less visible is to drown them in lots of high quality stuff.

Interestingly, the two most successful agencies, SS and IS, have never rejected any of my photos because they have "too many" or "we are not looking for...". As long as the quality is good, most photos are accepted, also those that are a bit off-beat. A broad selection is probably as important as a deep one. Although I'm not searching for "Buddhist temple in Himalaya" every day, the agency who has it when I need it, gets my vote.

So, I don't buy images at StockXpert, but at DT, or at IS if I can't find it at DT.

StockXpert, are you listening?

The D40X is a real killer, and Nikon currently has almost 50% of the Japanese DSLR market. The reason seems to be that both the D40 (old version) and the D80 runs circles around the EOS 400D and 30D.

The competition is really tough now, and even Olympus will probably increase their market shares with their new cameras and lenses. I have both Nikon and Olympus, so I'm a happy camper 

Fotolia is slow for me as well. It surprises me, both because I think they have a nice concept, and because my portfolio there is growing constantly.

What I've also noticed, is that there's a comparatively small portion of my images that sells there. Even IS, where I have a smaller portfolio, sells a much broader selection of my photos, not to speak about SS, where anything sells.

Interesting statistics epixx.  Do you have the same portfolio at IS and SS?

Your numbers certainly make SS look appealing.

No, due to the upload restrictions at IS, I have more than twice the number of photos at SS, even if I've had more rejections with the latter. The upload limits make a fair comparison almost impossible, and long term, IS may even be a better deal if I chose to go exclusive, but with DT being a strong competitor as well, I don't see myself doing that.

This obviously also has something to do with photographic style. Some of my top sellers at SS hardly moves at all at IS and vice versa. Even within one theme, the differences can be big sometimes. That's probably a result of a number of things, like customer base, how the search engine works etc.

But as opposed to common "knowledge", my old photos at SS sell rather well, at least as long as I keep uploading new ones.