NPS Members Get Newest Nikon DSLRs First

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<p>NPS members also are required to show a certain amount of published work to prove they're really professionals. It's not enough to buy a certain amount of gear.</p>

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<p>Nikon appears to really dig into a person's background when approving NPS status. On another web site it was stated that to be an NPS member you have to show that you make the majority of your income from photography. Henry Posner stated that he is no longer a member of NPS because he no longer makes the majority of his income as a photographer. Others have stated the same information. They have not been able to get into NPS even though they have an expensive inventory of Nikon equipment and make quite a bit of money from photography. The bottom line was that they did not make the majority of their income from photography and they were not accepted into NPS. </p>

<p>Later,<br>

Dan</p>

<p>Ilkka,</p>

<p>It isn't exactly perfect, but I'd say that my D3x was worth more when I sold it than it is now. Of course smart money should still like these cameras, so they might go back up later. As far as when to replace, that's more a matter of individual needs. I pay off the depreciation costs each year, and as the depreciation costs usually increase after a replacement model is introduced, there was no economic reason to hold onto the old bodies past that date.</p>

 

<p>Zack, I could be completely wrong, but I believe Jim was trying to add a little humor to the conversation. At least that's the way I took it and had a good laugh. Before you ask, I did attend a community college as well as a university.</p>

I can't believe people still go on about this.

 

So let me get this straight Michael....in an age where amateurs are giving away photos for free to break into a market they

*think* is to had by simply exposing those flicker-tastic shots, with print outlets in decline and with low ball, no talent hacks

taking the work of poor under paid wedding and portrait pros...you don't think it is fair a full time working professional gets

his or her gear 1-4 weeks before you do?

 

It takes more than two pro bodies, a full time tax return and tear sheets to join NPS, it takes a damn good reason *and* a

sponsorship from a guy like me, who has happened to have been a member for 20 years. I have only sponsored a

handful of working pros, it is a free service that unlike CPS of which I am still also a member and you can pay to join, that is not flooded with the Great Capture Club. So it

works because not every "Birder" can join, the quick turn around on repairs with loaners while you wait is critical.

Upgrading your gear before eBay and C-list gets flooded surely helps too. I have over 5,000 clicks on my D800 now,

hours of video and a couple minor problems to sort out. If I had to wait weeks for a second body or a repair, I would be

screwed.

 

It is not going to change Michael, it is meant to be this way, to keep pros professional, it's no different than pro support in

other industries. And for what it is worth, I am not using my NPS for my second D800 body, I don't need it that fast and

figure another NPS member does need it, I can wait......and so can you.

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<p>A pro-pro policy helps Nikon to establish as a serious brand.</p>

 

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<p>"Pro-pro." I like that, Shun. It has a certain ring to it. Apropos that, there has got to be some way to beat back all the tan-tubers. </p>

<p>Follow the money.</p>

<p>--Lannie</p>

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<p ><a name="00aHMp"></a><a href="../photodb/user?user_id=2199211">Barry Clemmons</a> <a href="../member-status-icons"><img title="Subscriber" src="../v3graphics/member-status-icons/sub6.gif" alt="" /></a>, Apr 16, 2012; 07:20 p.m.</p>

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<p>Zack, I could be completely wrong, but I believe Jim was trying to add a little humor to the conversation. At least that's the way I took it and had a good laugh. Before you ask, I did attend a community college as well as a university.</p>

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<p>It may have been a joke Barry, but it was still in poor taste. Perhaps I feel that way because I was the one on the butt-end of said joke, but not everything with a punchline is appropriate, especially in an anonymous forum where you don't know your audience.</p>

<p>And I wasn't going to ask. No reason to make a bigger deal out of it. He was rude, I told him so, and now we're moving on.</p>

 

<p>Thanks Barry, I'm glad someone got my humor. Chillax Zack, I wasn't responding to you other than taking a line from Groucho. I was responding to the the op and why NPS members get treated special, if you can call 6 weeks to get my lens fixed special.</p>

<p>I am a graduate of a community college, no, never went to a University, and I don't have kids but if I did they wouldn't be photographers because I'd have to support them until they where 40! More humor here in case someone missed it.</p>

<p>By the way, my major was photography and it was not fine art. City College of San Francisco had the best 2 year photography program in the country when I attended in the late sixties. When you got your AA you were ready for a position in commercial photography.<br>

To wrap this up...a photographer and a giraffe walk into a bar... </p>

<p>'To wrap this up...a photographer and a giraffe walk into a bar..'<br>

You mean, neither one of them saw it?</p>

<p>Sorry Jim, I guess I didn't see it. Where I'm from you hear that sort of talk every so often, but it's usually from doctors or lawyers, and they usually mean it.</p>

<p>Sorry to let my previous experiences get in the way of your joke.</p>

<p>No problem.</p>