Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/18

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Subject: [Leica] Digital vs film cost
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:02:13 -0400
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Agree totally.  It's almost impossible to make a living as a professional
photographer these days and I try to discourage everybody who asks.  You
have to be better than the prosumers but that's not often an issue since
"good enough" and "cheap" trump "best quality" most of the time.

Tina

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at 
mac.com>wrote:

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> Today, if you're not shooting with a $30K plus digital camera
> you cannot hope to get near that day rate
> (with very rare exceptions)
> because everyone and their brother has a "prosumer" digital camera
> thats putting out "okay" images.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
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Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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