Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I absolutely hate to admit this, but Tina is right...... Everything ends up as a digital file. The difference between film and pure digital is cash flow. Pay $5K now for the camera + a new, high performance computer, or spread it out over several years. ( Amateur rate, Pros may have other pay back rates.....) Pushing it one step further, if you have film now, how do you digitize it all and move forward? You still need to get that scanner, etc. So the fact is that while everything needs to be digitized, you will always need a scanner. The remaining question is not IF but WHEN do you buy your digital camera? If you are a Pro, the obvious answer is yesterday. For us amateurs, the answer is not as clear cut....... Frank Filippone, still shooting film ( only), but drooling over M8 used and demo prices.....) red735i@earthlink.net -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Tina Manley Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 7:38 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] RD-1 now Backup At 10:13 AM 12/13/2008, you wrote: >These arguments I always find a little misleading. They leave out >the fact you should buy external drives for back up, and those in >redundancy. You need a good fast computer or editing your photos >will be painful. You need software to edit those photos. There is >far more cost to digital than just the camera and all of that HAS to >be considered also, IMHO. But, since everything ends up as a digital file, you need the same storage for film. And you need a scanner. And software to edit on a big computer. ;-) Tina Tina Manley www.tinamanley.com _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information