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PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter for May Week Five ## 440E |
KEY WORDS: | Research Fee | Market Position | Specialized Agency | Supply Chain | Art Director | Carbon Paper | Spy Planes | FM Sub-Carrier Radio | Travelers |
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Should You Pay a Research Fee?
Research fees came about in the last century
when photobuyers would request a particular photo from several stock
photographers and stock photo agencies simultaneously. The photobuyer
would receive several submissions. The buyer would choose the photo
that best fit the bill and would return the rest to the other photo
suppliers.
Stock agencies and photographers got smart and began charging a "research
fee" to cover their lost time. The research fee ranged from $25
to $100 (usually around $75), depending on the eventual licensing
fee. When a photobuyer licensed (“rented”) a particular
image, the cost of the research (to find the photos in the files;
it required manual labor at that time) was included in the eventual
licensing fee.
In 1997, the Tony Stone agency began dropping research fees, probably
in an attempt to gain market position, but also to reflect the new
easier in-house computer searches that were coming along at that time.
Most stock agencies followed suit (they had to!). Today, very few
general stock agencies charge a research fee.
However, if you are dealing with a specialized agency, or an individual
stock photographer specializing in a niche market, you probably should
expect to be charged a research fee, particularly in cases of especially
obscure, rare, hard-to-locate image requests. -RE
Helen Schwartz |
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Just-In-Time Photos
Dennis Frates
Back in Time...
Subject: DIGITAL PICTURES Whatever happened to carbon paper? Once a mainstay in the company office, it has disappeared along with the ink well. Soon the telex machine will be retired and the emerging electronic mail via desk-top computers will take over. What parallels loom in the photography/publishing industry? Just around the corner is a big revolution. Film-based pictures will be out and digital pictures in. While it won't happen tomorrow, all signs indicate you'll miss the boat unless you prepare for your cameras and your pictures to become antiques. Film, as we know it today, will be going the way of tin and glass plates. The homework is in process, and the race is on in business and industry. The military, for example, already uses digital video cameras in its spy planes. The resolution (5,000 pixels) doesn't compare to film-based resolution (3 million pixels). But that's the kind of thing they were saying about home computers only a decade ago. THE FUTURE The impact promises to be monumental. According to most reports, Americans shoot 11 billion pictures a year and spend some $8 billion on cameras, film, photofinishing, and other film-related process and costs. Photofinishers get the largest chunk: $2.5 billion. Film makers get the next largest share: $2 billion. Both processes will be obsolete when digital pictures take over. Not only will the digital picture meet the needs of the amateur photography industry, but once the digital process is perfected to produce high-resolution pictures, the transmittal of these pictures via phone lines, FM sub-carrier radio, or other data transmission process, will revolutionize the professional photo acquisition industry. Photo editors will be able to access and select pictures in minutes, rather than the cumbersome hours and days that today's processing requires, dealing with film-based pictures.
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ANOTHER ART FORM Camera phone photography
emerges as art MORE CLOUT Broad New Coalition Launched To Promote Creativity, Jobs, and Growth Through Copyright - The Alliance comprises 29 member organizations from the worlds of entertainment, arts, technology and sports, and represents an estimated 11 million Americans working in copyright-related industries. http://www.stockphotographer.info/content/view/517/92/ THE SWISS ARE COMING Sodapix Goes International - The Zurich (Switzerland) based photo agency Sodapix opens an office in the United States to increase their sales-activity in North America. http://www.stockphotographer.info/content/view/518/92/ BIG MONEY A Splash of Photo History Comes
to Light CONTINUING TO GROW New InfoTrends Study Indicates Continued Growth in Photo Imaging Services - The report shows a strong correlation between the use of the Web and satisfaction with digital imaging. The research also identifies distinct differences in imaging behavior by demographics and psychographic attributes. http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25508.html IN INDIA: INVESTING IN PHOTOGRAPHY? Investing
in photography is a good option It’s the right to time
to be a photographer and also the right time to invest in
works of professional photographers because they're selling
like hot cakes.http://www.ibnlive.com/news/investing-
TRAVELERS
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Shawn McGrath Judy Taylor Robert Maust Jason Lauré Lee Snider Pamela York
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THE PRICE IS RIGHT. The website reads: "East Stock, your guide to the right photo, right away. Search through more than 40,000 high-quality images. Pricing, from $10 to $70 an image." This announcement is similar to those put out today by many
stock agencies, minor and major. They offer low fees to publishers,
graphic houses, regional magazines, small publications, and
non-profit groups, that don’t require managed-rights
to a photo. The stock agencies have tapped into a new market
--one that may not pay a high fee for an individual photo,
but whose volume purchases will bring in profits. This discovery
may be new to the stock agency world; however, it is a principle
we have espoused here at PhotoSource International since 1976.
We have operated on the principle that free enterprise should
indicate the price of a photo, not a fixed or "suggested"
fee by an agency. Here at PhotoSource International we are
happy to have stock agencies discover this democratic approach
to servicing all members of the photo-buying community.
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