Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/09

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Subject: [Leica] Summilux vs. Summicron
From: telyt at earthlink.net (telyt@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Nov 9 09:47:46 2004

B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Of course digital saves money - if you buy film.

Not nessesarily.  For those of us who have to buy our own cameras the net
cost of the hardware is a much greater with digital vs. equivalent quality
film cameras.  NOTE EQUIVALENT QUALITY, NOT D70 vs. M7.  If you're a
machine-gun photographer then digital can make economic sense but if you're
more deliberate or if other circumstances keep your film use low the cost
of depreciation on the digital camera can be much greater than the cost of
film.  Digital cameras depreciate to nearly nothing in just a few years
while Leicas hardly ever depreciate to nothing.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com

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