Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:45 PM 4/3/2007, you wrote: >The differential would buy one hell of a lot of slide film >and processing. YMMV ;~) but my digital life makes no economic sense >what-so-ever. >George Lottermoser Of course, I've done that, or my business manager has. There is absolutely no contest. A hell of a lot of slide film and processing in my case is over 300 rolls a month - a conservative estimate since I plan on 100 rolls a week in the field and sometimes twice that. I'm not even including the cost for mounting the slides, storing them in slide pages and scanning them once I get home. That time and expense alone would pay for several more cameras. Based on the price of the slide film and development alone, I paid for my first professional digital camera - the Canon 1DMII within 6 months of buying it. Everything since then, for three years, has been free. Of course, it depends on how much film you use, how you process the film, store it, scan it, and process the digital files, but for me, I've saved enough since I've converted to digital to pay for a Canon 5D and a Leica M8 with quite a few reusable CF and SD memory cards and several external hard drives I think most photographers who make their living with their photos would agree that converting to digital more than pays for any expense occurred to do it. YMMV ;-) Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com