[Leica] RD-1 now Backup

[frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)]

What you say is true but if I calculate the incremental computer hardware 
costs incurred uniquely for the digital photoraphy it is zero, software and 
printer costs are significant.


--- On Sat, 13/12/08, Luis Miguel Casta?eda Navas <octabod@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Luis Miguel Casta?eda Navas <octabod@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] RD-1 now Backup
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Saturday, 13 December, 2008, 8:51 PM
> On 13/12/2008, at 21:28, Seth Rosner wrote:
> 
> > Luis, the difference isn't complicated: computers
> do not require  
> > replenishment, at most an insignificant amount of
> electric power;  
> > film does.
> 
> You didn't understand my statement. I'm not arguing
> in favour -or  
> against- of this or that, there is no matter if the cost is
> high or  
> low, in the end a cost is a cost, and should be counted.
> 
> With digital photography people tends to skip expenses
> hiding  
> themselves behind other uses of the stuff, when in fact you
> - or me  
> for the case - wouldn't updated the computer, the
> software, the  
> printer, or whatever else we did if we weren't in need
> of processing  
> such stuff, to do not tell that the comparaison with
> shooting film  
> about savings in processing is faux for those who do not
> make a living  
> out of photography, just because most of us never shot such
> amount of  
> pictures/day never ever before, and well, if you ask me
> most of them - 
> mines first- are just useless crap.
> 
> Digital for amateurs is wondeful as long as the amateur
> likes it, but  
> there is no need to exceed the facts.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I feel better, to hell with photography, art, women, and
> all
> E. Weston, 1924
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