Topic: Earning Bitcoin with cheap camera equipment. - page 2. (Read 512 times)

I agree that the commercial exposure the image gets and the creativity are the most important.
However, I'd put the camera onto place #3 because many may prefer unedited photos and a bad camera can add noise into the photo which will make it undesirable.

Some of the charity shops in England just dump stuff that hasn't sold in a month, in the rubbish bin. It was in a box that they asked me to dispose of. I bought a charger on Amazon, as I mentioned above, and the camera appears to be working, but I need to do a white board teat when I get a lens and memory card. It didn't sell because it had a dead battery, no memory card, lens or charger, and it was not possible to confirm it was working.

In my opinion, the camera is not the most important item when creating commercial images. I would rank it fifth in the following list

1. The business acumen of the photographer
2. The creativity and knowledge of the photographer
3. An ability to use image editing software to enhance pictures.
4. The lens
5, The camera.

I hope that this project can build a community to help members with items 1, 2 and 3, and that it can provide suggestions for the acquisition of Items 4 and 5. Maybe we can look at repairing broken equipment to reduce costs.

Buying the most expensive camera, and taking auto pictures of cats, babies, clouds or the tower of London is unlikely to get one listed, let alone make sales. At a basic level, one should switch to aperture priority the enhance of blur backgrounds, or to shutter priority for night shots. It is also useful to have a reasonable command of English to add descriptions, keywords, and the EXIF data.

Man apologise if I didn't understand things there cause I have some questions: If you try to help to local charities, why did they give you Canon 350D gift?
I think it will be better if you take it in some local phone/camera repair services and ask them what kind of chargers and etc are needed for it and if they have equipment, whether it's possible to test it.
And also, you need great camera like Canon EOS 5d mark 3 and similar to take high quality pictures which will be acceptable for shutterstock.

I don't want to get involved in any money or other financial transactions. That's when you need KYC, and government permissions, and of course it creates tax liabilities and possible scam accusations. I hope that it can become a small group of members helping each other to find cheap kit, and to improve their photographic skills. Maybe some of the members will work together to help with exchanges, but I would prefer to keep out of that.

BAT is a crypto for content producers, and Steemit offers crypto payments as well. Maybe those sites could be used for people to get started.

Jet Cash, are you sure you can sell photos to shutterstock with cheap equipment?
I mean, those photos are very high quality and resolution, colors, etc. They are even better than those free websites like pexels and pixabay, which are very good too.

I don't use cameras since smartphones showed up, but my smartphone cannot make good resolution photos like shutterstock require


I think this could be easily solved. Jet Cash can sell to shutterstock, receive in fiat, convert to btc, and pay for those members in btc.

At some point, about 2 (or more) years ago, I've done a bit of research in that direction. I was hoping I find something without KYC requirements.
I've even posted some images to bittit (which now doesn't seem to exist anymore). Unfortunately I've never received a satoshi for them.
So.. good luck with your project, but be careful, since where money is involved, IRS may get involved too, and you may need KYC and accounting. I hope I'm wrong.

I'm super curious if you find something. IMHO crypto is a pretty good fit for royalty-fee-based earnings since for many content producers relatively small payments are involved.

That's something that I need to research.My feeling is that if one can find an exchange that will allow payment into your account in dollars, then they could be used to purchase Bitcoin. The idea is to collect Bitcoin into a savings wallet, and use this as an investment for the future. I got the impression that some members had problems in accepting payments in their local currencies. The project is also a way to learn a new skill, and maybe one could earn Bitcoin by taking wedding photos, or some other local event reporting.

Are there stock photo sites that pay their members in Bitcoin?

I haven't keep track of stock photo sites for a while, but e.g. Shutter Stock seems to only support payout using the likes of PayPal and Skrill [1] (And I'm honestly surprised that Skrill is even supported, it feels like yesterday that having to deal with cheques was more or less standard).

[1] https://www.shutterstock.com/contributorsupport/articles/kbat02/000006593

I've seen many threads asking about methods to gain a passive income in Bitcoin, and most of the replies seem to be based on faucets, trading or sig spamming. I thought I would see if I could build a passive income from free or almost free, camera equipment. I've started a project in Fit to Talk, and I chose to run it there for two reasons. I have complete control over the thread, and the project is aimed at Bitcoin Talk members who may be in countries with "challenged" economies, and they may not have English as their first language. This is the link -
https://fittotalk.com/english-talk/index.php?topic=380.0

The project is aimed at helping members to create images that can be submitted to sites such as Shutter Stock, and later on, I can post links to instruction videos on YouTube, but first I have to manage to build a camera system that is as close to free as I can get it. Please feel free to post comments and advice in this thread. I've almost managed to build a working system based on a Canon EOS 350D, and I will post comments on testing and tuning it once I have obtained a lens and memory card.

I'm trying to restrict this project to the purchased items and free software, and I'm not using any of my more expensive still and video cameras, except for photographing the equipment of course. I'm also avoiding the use of mobile phones, as members may not have phones with suitable cameras included. Maybe that could be a future project, or perhaps somebody else could start such a project.