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<p>It looks like it just might have been a pretty good little camera for its day.</p>

<p>Having worked for 11 newspapers -- some real big and some real small, I would suggest that maybe the editor is not interested in any more rights than to use each photo once. But you never know. The trend today is fror publishers to try to gobble up every right they can think of. You need to do some good old horse trading. Figure out what you want and go from there. Tony (above) has some good suggestions. I hate to tell you this but some small newspaper don't pay anything at all. And $20 a shot might be straining the editor's tiny budget.</p>

<p>If the alternator went out on your Ford would you try to use one built for Chevrolet? That's what you are doing. It might work but you will have to fiddle with it. Maybe a little, maybe a lot.</p>

<p>Many photographers use reflectors to add light to the subject of a photo. You can also use something black to reflect dark into your photo.</p>

<p>Good photos, all. I'd add something but we don't have any of that rain stuff (much) here in the Mojave Desert.</p>

<p>I had a Canon scanner and it worked pretty good for a while. But when it failed Canon said they could not fix it. I think what I had was a small mechanical problem but the box is sealed lke Ft. Knox and I couldn't take it apart to look inside and Canon gave me the raspberry.</p>

<p>I had a Canon scanner and it worked pretty good for a while. But when it failed Canon said they could not fix it. I think what I had was a small mechanical problem but the box is sealed lke Ft. Knox and I couldn't take it apart to look inside and Canon gave me the raspberry.</p>

<p>I keep forgetting -- what kind of typewriter did Hemingway write his stories on?</p>

<p>Some of the dark probably leaked out of the camera.</p>

<p>War, cancer, rampage and drug lords are trendy. So what?</p>

<p>This person is trying to get your goat and rattle you. And is doing a pretty good job because you let him/her. You don't even know its another photog, it could be someone who wants to tick you off for some other reason. How does that person know your rates, anyhow? Most photogs in my neck of the woods are real cagey about prices until they get a for-real client.<br>

If the person is real s/he is gonna starve whatever you do because s/he's a clown who needs to learn if s/he takes better photos he s/he will get more jobs. Worrying about what you are doing is straight from downtown Loser City.</p>

<p>You mentioned you had some b&w. I had hundreds of b&w negs that were the target of vandals and soaked with water. They were in glassine sleeves and the negatives and glassines, when dried off, were all stuck together. Soaking the negatives stuck to the glassines helped in some cases but not all. Usually there were 4 or 5 strips of negatives and the two on the outside were glued, more or less, to the glassines but the negs in between were in perfect condition years later. It was like a safe cocoon for the neg strips on the inside. Soaking in water and carefully trying to rub off the glassine stuff worked for most of the ones glued to the glassines.</p>

<p>Okay, let's tell it like it is, according to the way you tell it. You're acting like an idiot and the other side is playing you like a guy with a trout on the end of his fishing line. What does it take for you to wake up and smell ther burnt coffee? Somebody out there does not give a fig about your art, your rights, your efforts, or you. You need legal advice and to get a little backbone.<br>

I am reminded of a poster I saw one that said, "it is immoral to let suckers keep their money." Or the rights to their images.</p>

<p>Yes, Virginia ther is a Santa....whoops, different story. Yes it can all stop. I too have an obscenely expensive inkjet printer, more hungry ink tanks than Lana Turner had husbands, a calibration this and a calibration that and software up the kazoo. Not to mention photo prints that look kinda fake with the colors not right. A printer that used 17 colors of ink when all I print is monochrome.<br>

However it will go away soon. As soon as I get my "dip and dunk" wet darkroom put totether. Progress is the other direction, folks. Live with it.</p>

<p>That girl of yours has a million $ (American bucks) smile. I love your boat/water photo and the street sign. Good work.</p>

<p>The above is pretty good advice but it is only opinion. What I did was this -- I guaranteed all my work. If you don't like it you don't pay. I don't know how that would fly in today's rip off culture but it worked for me. I might add "friends" hardly ever think your work is anything but amateur snapshots. At least that is my experience.</p>

<p>I like your photos. I don't critique because there is no way to know if -- for instance -- the photog could have gotten a little more over to the left, or any of a million details that drive a photog crazy. You've got a good eye.</p>

<p>I think you need to put procedures in place so you don't drop the camera -- twice. I dropped my motorized Nikon F camera (they are heavy) once in 1974. I need to get it fixed, soon....</p>

<p>Once upon a time I was hired to photograph a supermarket at night. I looked at the nighttime scene with lots of lights dim and bright and wondered which areas were the most important. I shot some photos of color slide (low tonal range) film. When I got the film back it was obvious -- if you couldn'[t read the neon-lit name of the company they were no good at all to the client.<br>

The point is -- which do you want, the highlights or the dark areas? If you want everythng I guess it's HDR or nothing. Your eyeballs need to be utilized.</p>

<p>Traditionally, price is based on use. Is it for a national ad campaign or to put on a small website and ads in local newspapers? Will they use it for billboards all over the country and full page ads in the New York Times? Probably not, but you should ask. And limit the rights you are selling.<br>

By the way, just because a firm in a non-profit thaat does not mean everybody works for low wages. There are heads of non-profits making a million bucks a year. Non-profits just cannot pay dividends to investors.<br>

You are walking through a minefield at night with no flashlight. Lots of luck. Been there... I did a photo job for PBS TV (non-profit) and got more money per day that I ever got in my life. It was in their budget. And, after a year the rights to the film negatives reverted to me.</p>

<p>Traditionally, price is based on use. Is it for a national ad campaign or to put on a small website and ads in local newspapers? Will they use it for billboards all over the country and full page ads in the New York Times? Probably not, but you should ask. And limit the rights you are selling.<br>

By the way, just because a firm in a non-profit thaat does not mean everybody works for low wages. There are heads of non-profits making a million bucks a year. Non-profits just cannot pay dividends to investors.<br>

You are walking through a minefield at night with no flashlight. Lots of luck. Been there... I did a photo job for PBS TV (non-profit) and got more money per day that I ever got in my life. It was in their budget. And, after a year the rights to the film negatives reverted to me.</p>

<p>I have always disliked the 135mm lens. In my humbug opinion it's too long for a portrait lens and too short to be a telephoto. Give me a 105 and a 200mm any day. Recently, a friend gave me an OM-10 Olympus that is in like new cndition. I nosed around and found a Zukio 135mm f2.8 lens for sale for chump change. All of a sudden 135mm looks pretty good.Maybe you can teach an old bowwow new tricks.</p>

<p>I hae thousands of images from the 1960s and 1970s, many of which were taken on 120 film. B&w and color slides plus a few color negatives. I have been using an Epson V500 Photo scanner which will take 35mm and 120-size originals to scan. It is a flatbed scanner and you can also scan 4x5 negatives/slides or tiny Minox negatives or slides.<br>

I am exhibiting some of these old photos in an art gallery, blown up to 11x14. The gal who made canvas ink jet prints from my scans said I could have the images blown up three or four times as big as 11x14's. There's a tough learning curve while attempting to make really good scans, though.<br>

I have to wonder if making scans for a backup is wise. Progress marches on and while your original slides will last a long, long time if taken care of well, who knows if --say -- 25 years from now anyone will have a computer that reads your scans? I have info on old 5.25 inch floppy disks that are pretty hopeless as far as being able to retreive the info on them. And they are only 30 years old.<br>

Good luck.</p>

<p>I shot photos of celebrities in Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s with a Yashicamat and/or a Nikon F. The eye-level sportsfinder is great. You just have to remember that what you see is not 100 percent what you will get. There's a parallax problem but the sports finder is a must for fast action. I have always said a 35mm is really nice and handy but you begin to appreciate the 120 size, such as with the Yashicamat, when you get into the darkroom. I am now making large-sized prints (11x14, 16x20) of my old Hollywood stuff for art gallery sales and many of my 35mm shots blow up real good but the blowups from the Yashicamat are effortless because of that big negative. I have a Yashicamat that I used in the 1960s and it still works well. I just bought another one in fabulous shape because I could not resist buying the darn thing. Great camera. Fun to use.</p>

<p>I guess I was a wanna be in 1956, the year I won a fabulous (for its time, and this was its time) Rolleiflex in a raffle for a buck. Since then I've spent more years than I like to think about behind a camera, for pay. Now my photos are in art galleries. But everybody has to start somewhere.<br>

I think folks should think about the quality of their photos and not worry about what other people are trying to do. There are cut rate (illegal) cosmetic surgeons in this crazed society of ours and you don't have to have a license to pick up a camera and say "I wanna get paid for these images."<br>

Get over it. Suck it up. There ain't no photograbber's union even if maybe there should be.</p>