[Leica] IMGs: About those iphones

[Tina Manley]

I hear you loud and clear, Ted.  But if you can't beat them, you have to
join them.  My stock agencies are all accepting photos from iPhones now and
they pay the same thing for them that they do my photos from Leicas!  Which
is not much.

Prices have gone down so far it's unbelievable, but they don't care anymore
how your photos were taken.  There used to be a list of approved cameras
and anything that didn't measure up was rejected.  No more!!  They will
accept any photos from any device!

This week, Alamy has sold three of my photos, all taken with Leicas - one
from Cuba, one from China, and one from South Carolina.  The prices they
sold for were $5.42, $14.99, $10.83 all for 5 year's use!!  And my cut is
half of that!!  It's only Thursday so I'm hoping for a good day tomorrow.
It takes so much time to keyword the photos that I'm sure I'm not making
minimum wage!!  Alamy is not my only agency but they are my main one.

I may be sending in more iPhone photos!  It's certainly easier to carry and
since everybody in the world is using one, you can be invisible.

I would hate to have to enlarge the iPhone photos to 24" x 36", though,
like the prints for my exhibit of the Syrian refugee children.  Those were
all from my Leicas and even small crops enlarged that big look great!  I'll
always depend on Leica when it really matters.

Tina

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi crew,
>
> No question they are an interesting bit of a "recording instrument!" In the
> hands of a very fine experienced photographer it captures images equal to a
> LEICA!
>
> On some occasions' equal to LEICA LOOKING GLASS!
>
> In the hands of a talented skilled eyed photographer ?
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> YOU CAN'T TELL IPHONE ? OR MULTI THOUSAND DOLLAR CAMERA. Which brings me to
> what sorts out all the machines in the world?  IT'S THE HUMAN USING THE
> CAMERA!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> AN IDIOT CAN USE THE HIGHEST PRICED leica produced! Yet every image is
> nothing but a piece of "CRAP!"  They may not think it?
>
> The cheapest Iphone in the hands of a smashing great super talented shooter
> and every photograph is a breath holder of beauty!
>
> The results are only as good/great / whatever, as the talented person using
> the "apparatus!"
>
> Myself I have made one exposure with an iphone just for the hell of it. L
> But I absolutely have no interest in "using/playing with one!"  WHY?
>
> I only see them as the destroyer of the livelihood of thousands of
> "real-photographers" who now are unfortunately wallowing in the depressions
> of unemployment. L
>
> OOh I bet the rebuttals will be somewhat ferocious over this.
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> But just think about a few mass firings? SPORTS ILLUSTRATED REALEASED all
> their staff, one if not more of major USA dailies cut their complete
> photog/
> darkroom and even their "photo editor!" Over a 25to 30 crew?
>
> Oh I can hear the rantings! But how about some feelings for the photogs
> who've dedicated 25 years dedicating their lives to the newspaper? Now
> they're in the bread line trying to get food for their children?
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> And all because of the iphone??
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> Dr. ted grant O.C.
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