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pachyderm
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| So, Lenswork is going to a subscription only model. How does this affect you? I only occasionally read Lenswork, simply because there is just too much digital content. Granted, at the sizes that the magazine publishes, they can look quite good. I just don't consider digital a medium for fine art. Because of this, I have never subscribed to it. I'm on the fence about subscribing - currently, I buy the occasional issue at the newstand.
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lion
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It does not affect me whatsoever. In fact, I cancelled my subscription, when I had one, after the first issue. I don't mind the digital stuff, but I absolutely refuse to support a magazine editor that bites the hand that feeds him. He thinks photographs should sell for $20, fine by me, but then he should sell his magazine for $2.
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Jorge Gasteazoro (3/15/2008)
It does not affect me whatsoever. In fact, I cancelled my subscription, when I had one, after the first issue. I don't mind the digital stuff, but I absolutely refuse to support a magazine editor that bites the hand that feeds him. He thinks photographs should sell for $20, fine by me, but then he should sell his magazine for $2.
Yes, I always thought that stance was unnecessarily hurtful to those trying to make a living at, or marketing fine art.
Robert M. Teague---------------------------------------------
Website: www.visionlandscapes.com
Blog: visionlandscapes.spaces.live.com
"Fujifilm remains true to its heritage and to the acknowledged superior image quality delivered by professional photographic film products." -- Fuji Press Release
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lion
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The biggest problem I have with this, is the hypocresy of it. WHen he was asked why not sell Lenswork for $3 then, he came up with the rationalization that Lenswork was more like a little "book" than a magazine, and that since he took so much effort on printing it that it should have a greater value. So is fine for him to expect being rewarded for his effort but a photographer should not expect the same.
We have it bad enough with people thinking all you gotta do is press the shutter to have the publisher of a photography encouraging people to think this way.
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| The mark of a successful business is that business having several spin-off projects and not relying soley upon your core business. If you go to LensWork's website, you see A LOT of different spin-off porjects. LensWork Extended, LensWork Workshops, Podcasts, etc. Although I have a personal preference towards traditional photography, I have always been a huge fan of LensWork. I aspire to get the quality of our black and white reproductions as good as some of his... and we're well on our way to doing that. No magazine sells 100% of what they put on newsstands, and I guess LW is around long enough that many people know about it. It would save them considerbale amounts of money to print less 12,000 less copies of their publication -- but I guess, in the end, how are new people that are coming to the market going to find them?
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