Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 12:04, B. D. Colen wrote: > Wow, you sure rack up those numbers fast...$1500 for CF cards? You can > get a 1gig, 80x card for about $139 - call it $140. Considering that you can only get about 20 shots at full res on a 1GB card (1024MB / 50MB = 20.48), I would think you would need at least 10 of them. Would you go on a job with less than 10 rolls? A lot of shooters tend to "machine gun" their subjects these days and pick the "decisive moment" out of a sequence generated by a frame burst. Maybe you want to run in a dual card setup where the RAW files go to one and JPGS to another so you can transmit asap. > So even if you need > four of them, that's $560, not $1500! And disk space? I just bought an > external 250 gig usb2/firewire drive for $299. Where are you getting > these numbers? :-) I would not trust a single drive system with a paying job. I would build a mirrored array about 500MB in size, which would be failsafe short of the building burning down. So, by the time you buy the drives, a case and a raid controller plus software you are looking at a solid $1000 bucks. $1500 may have been a little high, but you still have to figure out a reliable longterm storage solution and that's not a backup on to DVD/CD or tape. Maybe sending the frames to a film recorder as an additional safety precaution would be a smart thing to do... > Yes, if you already have a fortune invested in an R system, and don't > want to dump it, then it might make sense to go with the back...But if > not...My point is that you were saying the full-frame Canon is > expensive, when in fact it offers infinitely more in the way of both > features and image potential than the R back, yet is virtually the same > price as the R back. So if the Canon is over priced, what's the R back? > ;-) I never compared it to the R-back. To me that's a whole different ballgame. And if I was a shooting pro I would have serious concerns about using the R-back on a daily basis as my main or perhaps only body. If I was using a camera which is entirely electronic and sensitive to dust and moisture I would want as much sealing as I could get and that means buying a pro level Nikon or Canon. Feli