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What's your stock.......
Orange Elephant replied to ReeRay's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
Here's mine: Kodak Brownie Kodak Instamatic (sold) Zenit EM (sold) Canon AE1 (sold) Canon A1 (sold) Canon EOS 10 (recently sold) Long break from photography Nikon D810 Nikon F100 Nikon 1 V2 -
Thank you for bringing this up, banning camera gear carry-on in flights had not occurred to me, but it must be the next move. Bearing in mind that the people who confiscate your kit are not the airlines, but the security gate air-side. Take a busy International airport such as Manchester or London, do you think that the security people would bother where your ticket shows you are travelling, they'll confiscate right at the security gate as it's easier for them to manage. Better to deal with a grumpy passenger when you have some security guards around, rather than a couple Flight Attendants at
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Model releases
Orange Elephant replied to Orange Elephant's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
Thank you. -
Uploading Problems?
Orange Elephant replied to Ed Rooney's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
I hate to sound like a cracked record, but have you tried FTP? I don't know your file size but mine would upload in about 30 seconds even at 1.2M. Fortunately we get about 15. 36mp images. I've not tried FTP & not entirely sure how to use it with Alamy. I will investigate - thanks. -
Uploading Problems?
Orange Elephant replied to Ed Rooney's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
Uploading since the new image manager has been very slow for me. After a couple times closing the browser, I now just leave it & do something else for an hour. They eventually do upload now, but very slowly indeed. I'm on VDSL in a rural area, so not super fast, but reasonable speeds. Currently 14.2mbps DL & 1.2mbps UL. -
Upload trouble
Orange Elephant replied to Orange Elephant's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
Yes... I think that's what I'm using & even the new version has not failed on me until now. -
Upload trouble
Orange Elephant replied to Orange Elephant's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
Indeed I do - & it generally works! -
Is anyone else having upload troubles? I tried an upload of 16 images last night (Friday) & it failed half way through with the "washing machine" icon spinning on the next file to process. I tried again a few hours later & I couldn't get even the first image to upload. This morning (Saturday), I tried again & my browser crashed after 10 images. Those 10 images however are now in "processing". I use Firefox & as a computer engineer, everything is working well on my Windows 7 pc. I can't remember the last time my Firefox crashed, but not for at least a year. Is this just
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RE Rank
Orange Elephant replied to Jon Lewis's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
Thanks Mark. -
RE Rank
Orange Elephant replied to Jon Lewis's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
Use google search "alamy forum bhz" I am not using bhz BTW. Thanks. -
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Orange Elephant replied to Jon Lewis's topic in Stock photography discussion and contributor experience
Could someone point me to info about BHZ please? The forum software won't allow me to search on 3 characters. -
Film camera QC?
Orange Elephant replied to Orange Elephant's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
And by the way I love the Lighthouse image. Thank you. -
Nikon tele converters
Orange Elephant replied to Dave Richards's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
I was thinking about sharpness. However I now realise that cropping would reduce the overall total image size & total pixels, but would have no effect on the actual sharpness of the remaining part of the image. You may well have saved me from buying a teleconverter! -
Nikon tele converters
Orange Elephant replied to Dave Richards's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
You say in another thread that you are using a D810. I would bet (figuratively speaking) that you would get better results cropping using the 70-200 without any converter than full frame with any one of these 3 attached and still have an image that could be used for almost any general purpose including printing large. You are quite possibly correct MDM, particularly with the 1.4 t/c. However looking at the 2.0 t/c, would it not be correct that if I cropped an image by 50% in PP, the image IQ would therefore drop by 50%? -
Your QC Rank is...
Orange Elephant replied to RVT's topic in Alamy Quality Control and technical talk
There's a new image manager? Are Alamy rolling them out or do I need to tweak something? Edit: I found the blog. It's a roll-out.