Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Luis, No, the herd mentality has set in. Most camera purchasers want a digital camera and would not even consider a film camera. Consider that you can get a new film Rebel or N55 or Minolta 50 with a modest zoom lens for under $200 virtually anywhere. Digital SLR's start around $699 with equivalent lens. In the P&S market a 35-150 zoom model can be had for less than $100 if a top tier brand is not required or just over $100 if you want a Nikon, Olympus, Canon. The digital equivalent would start at $399 and be much larger or much more expensive if about the same size. I still hold with my argument of several years ago. For the person who shoots the typical 100 to 250 pictures a year, an analoge camera would be less expensive. $100 for the camera. $20 for 12 rolls of film, and $90 to process it. Rounded off to $200 the first year and about $100 each year the camera remains operational which would probably be about five years. Contrast that to $300 for a good 5MP camera, $20 for a reasonable memory card, and say an average of $1 for four prints. After the first year it is $200 for the analogue and $345 for the digital. After the second year it is $300 for the analogue and $365 for the digital. So, after three years of ownership assuming the analogue user shoots and has 240 prints and the digital shooter shoots thousands but has 100 prints a year, the digital photographer has finally spent less money assuming that the camera still works. For the heavy shooter obviously the economics change pretty quickly. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 1/13/06, Luis Miguel Casta?eda <lmc@interlink.es> wrote: > > On 13/01/2006, at 0:01, mehrdad wrote: > > > i think the trend is to be done with film cameras > > sure, profit is higher if they can convince you to change everything > every few years :) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >