The simple answer is I think that the vendor is doing what is known as 'creative dismissal'. You are being asked to buy somewhere else... politely.

But if you wish to play his game....well lessee... $35 per hour to take the pic, if I understand correctly. It takes how long to take the lens cap off (if applicable), put the lanyard around your neck (safety first!), press the ON/OFF button, press to focus and then snap?

I say about a minute per item.

Which indicates to me the rate should be about 60/35 per pic.

This sounds an awful lot like some of the 'policies' and demands I see from shops and old-fashioned businesses who are trying to apply the old ways of doing stuff on the Internet.

BTW, I used to pay for pics in the old days, before digital photography, but only when it was a car and I would specify to the vendor when the pics would be taken and exactly of what. So I would pay for film, processing and postage.

Had its faults but no worse than relying on jpeg images online....

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