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Subject: [Leica] Giving away pictures
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 19:01:54 -0800
References: <C92060EE.75B9%mark@rabinergroup.com>


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Steve Barbour

On Dec 4, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> As far as some points made on the medical profession goes in this thread:
> I've run into the idea of late that doctors are frustrated by patients 
> going
> around them by diagnosing themselves and out thinking them by checking out
> their symptoms on the internet.
> I come from a medical family but to me this is mainly good.

I agree, especially in the rare occasions when they get it right

This will certainly increase misdiagnoses but it will decrease the number of 
law suits

Steve
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> 
>> From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:36:34 -0800
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Giving away pictures
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 4, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Doug Herr wrote:
>> 
>>> Dr. Ted Grant wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Lawrence Zeitlin offered:
>>>>> Tina, I fully agree with your position but you are not describing the
>>>>> world as it is. It is harder to make a decent living as an independent
>>>>> professional photographer than it is as an actor or even a poet.
>>>>> Considering
>>>>> the number of professional quality cameras out there, only the tiniest
>>>>> fraction deliver pictures that are ever published. Given the quality
>>>>> standards imposed by stock agencies, vanishingly few P&S pictures will 
>>>>> ever
>>>>> make the grade regardless of merit unless of a particularly newsworthy
>>>>> event.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Larry,
>>>> My reaction to people who give their photos away just for a credit line?
>>>> (Sorry I can't do that as my use of the language would be unbearable!) 
>>>> Trust
>>>> me!
>>> 
>>> Ted you took the words right out of my mouth ;)  However I see no end to 
>>> the
>>> supply of people who are so hungry for 15 seconds of fame that they'll 
>>> do it
>>> for free.  I doubt there's much I can do to hold back this tide but I'm 
>>> sure
>>> not going to participate in it; the profit margin in giving photos away 
>>> is so
>>> small that not even infinite volume will make up for the loss.
>> 
>> I agree,
>> 
>> I didn't want to enter this discussion, but it has made me think of 
>> present
>> day analogous concerns in medicine where pressures exist for free medical
>> advice from experts, "the curbside consult"....after all it's only advice,
>> nothing changes hands, so why not make managed care providers happy by 
>> saving
>> money, rendering free advice about patient care, why not ....help, look 
>> smart,
>> reduce costs, and save lives to boot....
>> 
>> as they say   .......some advice is free, correct advice will cost.
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Doug Herr
>>> Birdman of Sacramento
>>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>>> 
>>> 
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