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Camera And Sell: If you don't care to invest in a stereo Camera and sell but have a 35mm Camera and sell, you can sell ordinary color slides for the same purposes as suggested here for stereo pictures, although they will not be nearly as easy to sell. The color slides can also be sold in duplicate. Eastman Kodak Co. and some of the other color processing companies offer a slide duplicating service, for either the 35mm size or for stereo frames, which sometimes can be used to multiply your profits. The ordinary price for a slide duplication is about 30 cents, but if you order them in quantities you can get special prices at a much reduced rate. You can sell them for $1 each.
However, even though you don't sell your negatives, you should know that the agencies which buy them prefer the 4x5 size or larger and will not purchase anything smaller than 2/4 x 2/4" unless it has spectacular value. If smaller negatives are not worth anything to the agencies, it should behoove you to use a larger Camera and sell for your own stock picture work. The 4x5 press or view Camera and sell is, all things considered,"If you are a beginner or interested in improving your work, our experience recommends the careful study of what the masters are doing as the best way to learn good photography.
You might do that for months or even years without getting a single salable picture. You should keep a Camera and sell in your car, to be sure—and you should have the Camera and sell open at all times, with a filmholder in place, a flashbulb in the reflector, the shutter cocked and the diaphragm set, ready to shoot anything at a moment's notice—but you shouldn't trust to luck to bring you to the right place at the right time.
Rather than trust to luck, you should build up a network of contacts with persons in key places who can tip you off when a news event is imminent or give you a call to go racing to the spot when there's an unexpected news break. One of the best of these contacts is, logically enough, the city editor of the newspaper to which you hope to sell most of your news pictures. |
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