Re: [Leica] Digital

[Dan Cardish <dcardish@sympatico.ca>]

But how much would it have really cost you to shoot the equivalent of 100
rolls digitally?   I've been looking at the new Minolta Dimage 7; at its
highest resolution setting, it can store only one image on the 16 meg
memory card that comes with the camera (about 14 meg per image).  If you
used the $500 USD 1-gig micro drive, you could store roughly 70 images, or
about the equivalent of two rolls of 35mm film.  What do you do then, once
it is filled up?

Dan C.

At 04:12 AM 25-07-01, vic di sylvester wrote:
>
>There has been much discussion over the last year or so about the mechanical 
>Leica and wet darkroom as compared to digital. Well, it seems much space on 
>this list is now being devoted to the "Digital" stuff. As the quality of 
>"Digital" improves so fast it appears the future will be tilted towards 
>digital cameras and printing. On a recent trip overseas I shot approx. 100 
>rolls of slide film.  The cost of film and processing was $1,000.  If I send 
>the better prints to a Lab instead of scanning and printing myself the cost 
>difference between the film, processing and printing starts to become a 
>major difference in cost. When I begin to think of the amount of film I 
>shoot during a year it is difficult not to start thinking of a digital 
>camera for some of my work. And the quality from the digital prints are 
>good, in fact, very good.