Ken,
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> Stock photography is a changing market and getting very unprofitable all of
> a sudden. With the demise of Multimedia and magazines reducing "feature
> stories" by 50 0n the past five years the market has become not only
> saturated but stale. To top all this, stock photo agencies have been
> increasing thier percentage and photographers are getting shafted in a big
> way. Many big stock photographers have broken off from the agencies in the
> last two years and are going it alone. The internet has helped this
> greatly. On the equipment side, stock photographers can generally shoot
> whatever they want--and do. You see a lot of Minolta equipment used by
> stock photographers that also shoot Mamiya. Nikon/Canon have a huge
> following, primarily because of equipment options, but this is an area that
> OM still is used, although quietly--nobody wants to stand out among the peers.
Would you please explain me what is stock photography/photographer ?
Is it some sort of 'free lance' photographer ?
> BTW, I consider myself a pro, and so does the IRS.
Do you mean by Internal Revenu Service ? If so, why IRS comes
into this thread ? Sorry, I do not understand.
I am neither a pro nor expert. I am just a happy OM user and a Zuikoholic
outside of my profession - different field pro, so the family won't become
hungry.
Jim Terazawa
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