Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And I just thought of another cost (or waste), I've been disposing of all my excess colour paper chemistry and will probably never use my analysers colour heads and other parafernalia ;-) > I fear the M8 will set my retirement back a year ;-) > >> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >