Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/07/14

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Subject: [Leica] Reality Check re: Digital vs Film vs Cost
From: saganicc at MSKCC.ORG (Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics)
Date: Wed Jul 14 08:53:05 2004

And that is the part I can't stand.  I still have to make prints and put 
them all over the floor.

Chris Saganich

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+saganicc=mskcc.org@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+saganicc=mskcc.org@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ted 
Grant
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:39 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Reality Check re: Digital vs Film vs Cost

Philippe Orlent offered:
> No more lab, no more time losses, immediate results on the spot, and a
> quality equal to or higher than analog.<,,

Philippe mon ami,
This is true. However, you left out the worst part about digital.......

One now spends countless hours in front of the computer screen compared to
slide / negative selection on a light table where it takes mere minutes to
edit.

The biggest complaint by stock photography colleagues at Masterfile is the
computer time, even though they say it's wonderful their film/lab costs of
$15 -$20,000 a year are eliminated, they now spend far more time in front of
the screen and a great deal less shooting.

So I suppose like anything there's good, bad and ugly to every new fangled
product.

ted





" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Reality Check re: Digital vs Film vs Cost


> >From the review:
>
> suppose 10 rolls of 220 film a day costing about 15$ each everything
> included = 150$
> suppose 15 days of work per month = 15 x 150 = 2,250$
> so 16,990/2,250= 7,5 months
> so 29990/2250= 13,5 months
>
> So these backs pay themselves back in a relatively short period of time,
if
> you're a professional photographer.
>
>
> I'm afraid the end of the analog era is nearing.
> ---
>
> > From: George Lottermoser <george@imagist.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:30:24 -0500
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Reality Check re: Digital vs Film vs Cost
> >
> > Feli di Giorgio7/13/04
> >
> >> "The P20 carries a list price of USD $16,990. The P25 costs $29,990."
> >
> > And let us remember that these are "camera backs" no body, no shutter,
no
> > lens, no meter. Just the digital equivalent of film.
> >
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