Nikon gives out free d80s to flikr photogs?

JamieCJamieC Registered Users Posts: 154 Major grins
edited October 10, 2006 in Cameras
Found this on another site I'm on.. interesting experiment!
http://crunchgear.com/2006/10/06/nikon-gives-out-d80s-to-flickr-photogs-wow-nice/

Jamie

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  • AntoineDAntoineD Registered Users Posts: 393 Major grins
    edited October 7, 2006
    Very good lesson for an ad ;)

    I never looked too much on flickr but now you say it like that... guess it may be a good idea to open an account. :D
    have a quick look at my portfolio (there's a photolog, too) :: (11-07-2006) experiencing a new flash portfolio. What do you think?
  • JamieCJamieC Registered Users Posts: 154 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2006
    Maybe Smugmug can approach Canon ;-)

    Jamie
  • gluwatergluwater Registered Users Posts: 3,599 Major grins
    edited October 9, 2006
    It's called rights grabbing. They gave the photogs the cameras and then the photogs had to give them their images royalty free. I don't know the extent of the contract they had to sign but it costs Nikon a lot less to give away a couple cameras than to pay photographers for a national ad campain like that.
    The site Nikon made is really annoying to navigate also. Would I do it? Probably :D.
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  • SeymoreSeymore Banned Posts: 1,539 Major grins
    edited October 9, 2006
    JamieC wrote:
    Maybe Smugmug can approach Canon ;-)
    Maybe Smugmug should approach Nikon... deal.gif :ivar thumb.gif
  • blackwaterstudioblackwaterstudio Registered Users Posts: 779 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2006
    Only way to get Nikons out. rolleyes1.gifrofl
  • ballentphotoballentphoto Registered Users Posts: 312 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2006
    gluwater wrote:
    It's called rights grabbing. They gave the photogs the cameras and then the photogs had to give them their images royalty free. I don't know the extent of the contract they had to sign but it costs Nikon a lot less to give away a couple cameras than to pay photographers for a national ad campain like that.
    The site Nikon made is really annoying to navigate also. Would I do it? Probably :D.

    Most of the people that are posting on Flickr are not pros (as in making a large portion of income from photography) Besides, how is that different than placing your images in a micro-stock site... how many downloads would one have to have before they could afford to buy Nikon D80? And those images are royalty free as well. deal.gif I say way to go Nikon clap.gif and come on over to smugmug thumb.gif We need more Nikon shooters rolleyes1.gif Andy will soon come over to the dark side bwahahaha :ivar
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  • ForeheadForehead Registered Users Posts: 679 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2006
    Andy already has a Nikon D2X. How much darker can he get?
    ballentphoto wrote:
    Most of the people that are posting on Flickr are not pros (as in making a large portion of income from photography) Besides, how is that different than placing your images in a micro-stock site... how many downloads would one have to have before they could afford to buy Nikon D80? And those images are royalty free as well. deal.gif I say way to go Nikon clap.gif and come on over to smugmug thumb.gif We need more Nikon shooters rolleyes1.gif Andy will soon come over to the dark side bwahahaha :ivar
    Steve-o
  • ballentphotoballentphoto Registered Users Posts: 312 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2006
    Forehead wrote:
    Andy already has a Nikon D2X. How much darker can he get?

    Maybe he should use it more often then thumb.gif
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  • BendrBendr Registered Users Posts: 665 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2006
    ballentphoto wrote:
    Maybe he should use it more often then thumb.gif

    Why would he use it?
    He's got a far superior Canon! :)
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  • dragon300zxdragon300zx Registered Users Posts: 2,575 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2006
    blackwaterstudio wrote:
    Only way to get Nikons out.
    Exactly, When you are sitting on that kinda stock pile and your equipment isn't moving ya gotta do something to get rid of it.deal.gif
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