Wondering if anybody has been using the Sony FDR-AX53 for 4k video and are the still images good enough for stock? Seems like a pretty good price point at $895.

The ads seem to be working. My SS video sales have more than doubled in the last few days.

Same here. July BME and then August with miniscule number of sales so far.

In November of 2008, I read an article describing how to make extra income online in microstock photography. The idea intrigued me since I was already making a living at photography shooting weddings, beach portraits and other various types of commercial work. I thought that this could possibly be another source of income.

    After checking out some of the photographs on different microstock agency sites, I picked out ten photographs which I thought might sell. Some of the images had been taken a year or two earlier and were just sitting on one of my hard drives. I joined several agencies, uploaded the ten images and waited to see what would happen. Two weeks later, I had accumulated a sum of $2.58 spread across three different microstock agencies. And ...I was hooked.

But it started me thinking; if I could make that much in two weeks with just ten images that were just languishing on my computer hard drive anyway, how much could I make on a yearly basis if I had one hundred images online. What if I had one thousand images online, or two thousand or possibly ten thousand. Visions of vast sums of money visualized before my eyes. And that is how my journey into microstock photography began.

I have over 600 video files on Pond5. Jan and Feb sales were good but March, April and so far this month sales seem to have dropped off and are down about 50% of what they were previously.