Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Alastair-- This is a valuable voice while we all come into heat about the M8. It's especially helpful to those of us who will have to wait until we can become third generation owners;^) I'm still lusting, but this helps with some of the sting. Ric Carter http://gallery.leica-users.org/f/Passing-Fancies On Oct 9, 2006, at 6:40 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote: > Well, we bought a digital SLR to go to Antarctica: it paid for > itself, because Helen won a trip to the Arctic, BUT, it was not > without some "cost". Now I'm NOT trying to compare with film > "fairly". I know there are more costs of running film, and that is > one reason to go digital, BUT my point is the cost does not stop > with the purchase of the camera. OK so here goes in point form: > > - the cost of the camera was "enhanced" by the extra batteries we > felt we would need to have > - we took an iPod to back up to, and soon discovered that the files > were too big for the pod to transfer all 2 gb of the card without > the iPod "stopping". So we needed, and had to borrow a laptop > (thanks Christian, it saved my ass ;-) ) so really, I will have to > have a laptop in future. That laptop cannot be my 5 year old iBook > (I did not take it at the last minute when I realized that it would > only hold 3 of the camera's cards on its HD and that it took an > "hour" to open each file), so there is another AUD 4000 which needs > to be spent > - at the end of each day, I spent hours downloading backing up > sorting and burning the files: with film I would have been in the > bar making use of the social side of the trip ;-) > - On arrival home we began sorting etc and soon overpowered the > desktop's power and storage: Now I need to look at a new faster > computer with a bigger hard disc and in the short run, I've had to > purchase 2 large external hard drives. > - sorting RAW files is slow, and I don't have a lot to spare ;-) > which pushes the need for good organization etc. This means not > only better faster computing, but bigger better programmes such as > CS2 PS and Lightroom etc. As I pointed out at a talk on photography > on the ship, there is no use taking RAW files if you a) don't know > how to "develop" them and b) have the hardware and software and > time to do so. > > All of this is a bit unexpected, and to top it off the camera was > really pretty cheap by digital standards, so of course it broke > down after such heavy use: fixed by Olympus under warranty, but > really, you need to carry two cameras not the risk we took with > only one (I was using a hasselblad, which would have become our > "back-up", but I did not take enough films to make the 1000 images > we took with the Olympus, and in the end, my exposures were not > that flash with the blad -- something I only realized when I got > home, so of course you can argue that with film I would need to > have another 2 weeks in the Antarctic and that would pay for 10 > cameras ;-) > > Cheers > On 09/10/2006, at 21:56, Ric Carter wrote: > >> Alastair-- >> >> How about a little expansion of your thinking here? >> >> Thanks >> >> Ric Carter >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/f/Passing-Fancies >> >> On Oct 8, 2006, at 6:27 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote: >> >>> The slippery slope is the hidden cost of going digital: but you >>> will find out ;-) >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information