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David, Which Red Hen product do you use? Blue2Can or DX-GPS What GPS receiver do you marry it to? Does their software provide all the functionality you need or do you need any supplemental/substitute programs?
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Gavin--Great you get $1.50 for postcards and get to keep most of it. That definitely makes it worth the effort.
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It's the old 'when do I just on the merrygoround' question. I have D3's D2's D1's and a few D100's and we used them all and still do (or did, re downsizing) As David said, it's not only the D3 but you will need a few full frame lenses to make it wor
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Your going to hate me, but up here at Big White I sell 5X7 post cards for $1.50. I sell them in my shop (now dead) and other local business I make $1.10 and the business 40c the cards cost me about 9c with the quantanties I buy, I sell about 8000-100
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Rick--From asking around the volume market here seems to be local postcards from $.35 to $1.00 or so and notecards of the same scenes for a little more. Then there is the "art card" market (which I've been experimenting with) where the car
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David, I don't know any high school T&I shooters that get paid to show up. T&I is paid for entirely by what the parents purchase. Most of us also have to "kick back" either money or something the school wants in a percentage of gros
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PS To echo Gavin's point about postcards, those and notecards seem to be the hot sellers at our local art gallery as well.--David
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Total ouch! Do you also shoot the games? (Not that I'd necessarily rush to take more images of a team that hasn't paid you for what you've already done) Just curious how that compares. Of course the problem with shooting the games is that it takes a
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David, Let me follow your daughter's HS Softball anecdote with this years facts from one of my HS Girl Softball T&I sales: Total gross sales from the entire team of 22 girls was $185.00. Out of that there is $105.00 balance still due. The coach,
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A few parts of what I do are still going strong, work for the resort for adds/web site ect is going gangbusters and post cards are still strong at the resort. So I will downsize the 'point and shoot" side of what we do and go hard with the retai
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Some more anecdotal 'bad news' is that my daughter mentioned that she was the only member of her team to purchase any of the photos taken at "picture day" for her (league champion) HS softball team. Without surveying the parents it is hard
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Jord--For sure grabbing the geo info as you shoot is the most reliable. I use a solution from Red Hen which is certainly not the cheapest but works great and of course since the camera injects the data it goes into both Raw & JPEG.--David
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rcjk--You're smart to think of lenses. Full frame digital puts a large additional strain on lens design, so Nikon came up with essentially an entire "redo" of their lens line with and subsequent to the introduction of the D3. I'd seriously
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Tony, I sure don't have an answer for you. Maybe David can shed some light into the very dark tunnel for us. For me it is almost the same as Gavin has stated. He is going back into retail sales with photo as a tag. I am up-selling and doing the fra
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Hm, so is there ANY part of the photo business that is growing and/or profitable? In the UK it is also tough as we are all chasing disposable income and people are being much more careful than they used to be. Although takings at events are a bit d
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Rick & David, Thank you for your comments. I have been very impressed with D3s reviews. I have always liked the feel of the “pro” models and their dependability. I have looked at both D300 & D700. Clearly, they have much more capabilities than
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I am keen on geotagging, too. But there is no built-in GPS in my D300. So I add easytagger to work with it. Easytagger works perfect. No need software. Just record and embed the geo info into photo when I shoot.
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Thanks! I can just imagine printing a zillion of the wrong ones that would scratch lenses. They'd make expensive Kleenex:-)--David
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rcjk--You might want to ask yourself what is most important to you. If it is the low light then either the D700 (1 stop less than the D3S but about 2-3 stops more than the D1X) is half the price, or the D700 (S) which is expected later this year will
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