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Wildlife Photography e-book: available again on Saturday Dec 17th

Dec 17, 2011 at 20:40:09 GMT

OTHER NEWS UWE-SKRZYPCZAK

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Wildlife photographer and dpreview.com contributor Uwe Skrzypczak is again making his book 'Wildlife photography: On Safari with Your DSLR: Equipment, Techniques, Workflow' available as a free download. As a goodwill gesture, following the difficulty many people experienced in downloading the book last week, Skrzypczak and his publisher Rockynook will be making the English language version of the book available again from Saturday December 17th for a 24 hour period, this time on dpreview's servers. The German-language version is also available from Skrzypczak's website. Please note - this download is only authorized from these links and for a 24 hour period - sharing or downloading the book from other sources contravenes Skrzypczak's copyright and is likely to deter other publishers offering downloads in future.

Availability - December 17th 2011

The download link will not work outside the following times:

Timezone	Pacific	Eastern	UTC/GMT	Central European
From:	15:01 (Sat 17th)	18:01 (Sat 17th)	23:01 (Sat 17th)	00:01 (Sun 18th)
Until:	14:59 (Sun 18th)	17:59 (Sat 18th)	22:59 (Sun 18th)	23:59 (Sun 18th)

Click here to download the free edition of Uwe Skrzypczak's 'Wildlife photography: On Safari with Your DSLR: Equipment, Techniques, Workflow'

German-language version:

Click here to download the German edition of Uwe Skrzypczak's 'Wildlife photography: On Safari with Your DSLR: Equipment, Techniques, Workflow'

Click here to visit Skrzypczak's website

Click here to visit publisher Rockynook

Comments

Total comments: 161

Many thanks to all for your interest on my book, and a big, big, thank you to dpreview for the perfect download service!!!!!!!!

Uwe

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Thanks, was able to download on the very first attempt.

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Got it this time! Thanks for the second chance!

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Well, it's past 18:01 and I still see only zero bytes in both Safari and Firefox on the Mac. Same thing last week. Seems like a nice idea but it doesn't really seem to work.

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Downloaded mine. Looks great! Thank you.

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Got it! Thanks for the second chance to get such a fine resource.

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I downloaded the e-book and I must say it looks fantastic. I'm looking forward to spending many evenings reading it.

Thank You

p.s. for people who have trouble with the download link I suggest reloading the web page or clearing your web browser cache and re-navigating to this web page. The downloaded zip file is under 14mb and comes from a very fast host.

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Finally was able to download.
Will start reading soon :)

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Thanks for the book, finally it is working.

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Download worked fine, took less than 10 sec. on iMac.

THANK YOU SIR.

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Thanks for the book. Download was fine, unlike last weekend.

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Finally downloaded. I was obviously too impatient.

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worked fine foe me, 1 minute after starting time 23:01 GMT (in Canada)
Thanks

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5:04PM here in the Central Time Zone US and still can't download. I guess this in one of those "you get what you pay for" deals.

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Refresh the page - it should now work.

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Downloads are now active. dave

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It is 09.21 hours in Adelaide Australia and I cannot down load file 0 bites, I received the email at 07.37 hours this morning. I do not understand why it will not download. Any suggestions?

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Not able to downwload, same as mentioned before. a 0b file.

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I know you probably have to append the copyright message for appearance's sake, but it seems a bit far-fetched that people will cease distributing copies the moment the time period expires.

What he should have done is given away the first half of the book for free, with the second half available for purchase separately, or indeed he could have used this as a way of publicising volume II (assuming he isn't already). Or - given that the book probably has a tonne of lovely sample pictures - he could distribute a low-res copy for free, and offer an A3, 300dpi version as a paid download. Etc.

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That's a rather disappointing attitude. Any e-book could be easily pirated but you have to trust people not to. Given Uwe's kind gesture of making the book available for free for a period, you'd have to hope that most people are decent enough to not then abuse that by illegally distributing it.

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I agree with Richard. Uwe's actions demonstrate faith in humanity. His faith translates into the good behavior of his readers. I thank him, his publisher, and whoever is providing the bandwidth necessary to host the file.

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Same problem as Glenn Runyan. Windows Vista does not recognize and the file shows a size of 0 bites in the download folder. Is this a PDF, video or what?

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The link will only work within the specified times

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Thanks a lot. This is very helpful in planning for our trip next year.

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I have the same issue - clicked on the link and a "download" file was downloaded which Windows cannot recognize.

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The link will only work within the specified times

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My window's 7 did not recognize the file type to open the download. How do I open it or with what program?

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The link will only work within the specified times

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I've corrected the mistake on the Eastern timezone.

If you're in the US, it's available from the afternoon/evening of Saturday, through to the same time on Sunday.

If you're in Europe, it's essentially available all day Sunday.

If you're in Australia, it'll be available from around lunchtime on Sunday (depending on where you are in the country)

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If I may, in these kinds of events, a small 1 line javascript or php telling us when it will be available in relative time would help. I am not saying removing the UTC/CET/Pacific/Eastern time, but adding something that says "Download will be available in XX hours, YY minutes"...
For example, now, it would say "Download available in 30 min", if I am right...
Or add a UTC clock, or whatever...
Thanks for those of us that are not in the usual timezones (I must say that adding the UTC is already great compared to other sites which just state US/Europe times).

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Worked first click with Safari on a Mac. Still no with Firefox on Linux. Get an error message

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I downloaded my copy (Windows 7, Firefox browser) at 1730 Central Standard Time US. No problems. The book is beautiful. I have already become engrossed in the dynamic range discussion.

Thank You, Uwe

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Thanks, was able to download on my Mac using Firefox.

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Wonderful of you to do this sir!! Well done also. I am jealous and thank full to see your visions. I agree w/ your forward totally. Best in all your efforts. Thank you to Mr. Butler and DPreview team for this gift.

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Many thanks for your generosity. Seasonal greetings to you and yours.....Barry

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Thank you for your efforts in sharing this wonderful publication
A perfect Gift for all of us at Dpreview
Thanks again Santa

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Incredible gift to us all, a very informative and visual read for any fan. Thanks Uwe

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What great teamwork, and so awesome that it's free. I've bought Uwe's 123 Photography resource several years ago. Well written stuff! Cheers DPReview for your facilitation of this also. Regards, Paul

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again a quality book to learn from. Amazing generosity.
thankyou.

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Most marvelous; thank you so much!

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Thanks a lot, great work !

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Thank you very much.

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Thank You Very Much for a wonderful gift.

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I guess I am out of luck. Been trying over a dozen times to get it but the download page heat downloading a zero length file. I was going at it from a link in an article in Zite. Something wasn't working.

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Total comments: 161


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