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JamieC
Oct-07-2006, 07:18 AM
Found this on another site I'm on.. interesting experiment!
http://crunchgear.com/2006/10/06/nikon-gives-out-d80s-to-flickr-photogs-wow-nice/

Jamie
AntoineD
Oct-07-2006, 07:36 AM
Very good lesson for an ad ;)

I never looked too much on flickr but now you say it like that... guess it may be a good idea to open an account. :D
JamieC
Oct-08-2006, 07:07 AM
Maybe Smugmug can approach Canon ;-)

Jamie
gluwater
Oct-08-2006, 09:07 PM
It's called rights grabbing. They gave the photogs the cameras and then the photogs had to give them their images royalty free. I don't know the extent of the contract they had to sign but it costs Nikon a lot less to give away a couple cameras than to pay photographers for a national ad campain like that.
The site Nikon made is really annoying to navigate also. Would I do it? Probably :D.
Seymore
Oct-09-2006, 12:07 AM
Maybe Smugmug can approach Canon ;-)
Maybe Smugmug should approach Nikon... :deal :ivar :thumb
blackwaterstudio
Oct-10-2006, 06:59 AM
Only way to get Nikons out. :rofl:rofl
ballentphoto
Oct-10-2006, 07:47 AM
It's called rights grabbing. They gave the photogs the cameras and then the photogs had to give them their images royalty free. I don't know the extent of the contract they had to sign but it costs Nikon a lot less to give away a couple cameras than to pay photographers for a national ad campain like that.
The site Nikon made is really annoying to navigate also. Would I do it? Probably :D.

Most of the people that are posting on Flickr are not pros (as in making a large portion of income from photography) Besides, how is that different than placing your images in a micro-stock site... how many downloads would one have to have before they could afford to buy Nikon D80? And those images are royalty free as well. :deal I say way to go Nikon :clap and come on over to smugmug :thumb We need more Nikon shooters :rofl Andy will soon come over to the dark side bwahahaha :ivar
Forehead
Oct-10-2006, 08:52 AM
Andy already has a Nikon D2X. How much darker can he get?

Most of the people that are posting on Flickr are not pros (as in making a large portion of income from photography) Besides, how is that different than placing your images in a micro-stock site... how many downloads would one have to have before they could afford to buy Nikon D80? And those images are royalty free as well. :deal I say way to go Nikon :clap and come on over to smugmug :thumb We need more Nikon shooters :rofl Andy will soon come over to the dark side bwahahaha :ivar
ballentphoto
Oct-10-2006, 09:40 AM
Andy already has a Nikon D2X. How much darker can he get?

Maybe he should use it more often then :thumb
Bendr
Oct-10-2006, 11:19 AM
Maybe he should use it more often then :thumb

Why would he use it?
He's got a far superior Canon! :)
dragon300zx
Oct-10-2006, 12:41 PM
Only way to get Nikons out.
Exactly, When you are sitting on that kinda stock pile and your equipment isn't moving ya gotta do something to get rid of it.:deal