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

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Subject: [Leica] Digital vs film cost
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:30:31 +0530
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Provia 100 costs around Rs.400 here on special order, that is US$9. Nobody
does E6 processing any more in Chennai, so I have no idea of the cost.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> The Pro transparency film that I used to use is especially expensive. I
> just
> rechecked for you from a local shop with (good) E6 processing. It's got
> worse.
> 1x Provia 36 exposure including processsing ann astounding $AUD 37.50 +
> $15.50 processing. That's about $1.56 a frame in your pesos currently!
> How they justify tht $37.50 vs. BHPhoto prices is somewhat a mystery.
>
>
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
>
> *Australia, paying for the world's carbon sins, one tonne at a time**.*
>
>
>
> On 19 July 2011 07:48, Montie Talbert <montoid at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > $36 Bucks for a roll of slide film down under?
> >
> > Montie
> >
> >
> > >>Someone forgot to figure in that digital allows you to shoot more when
> > wanted and try different things and redevelop your Raw files and change
> ISO
> > on the fly and the price of good transparency film ( > $1 a frame here)
> and
> > the need to digitise your film to do anything with it at home etc etc etc
> > etc. Put your hand on your heart and declare if you develop and print
> > everything you shoot on film anyone?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Geoff
> >
> >
> >
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In reply to: Message from montoid at earthlink.net (Montie Talbert) ([Leica] Digital vs film cost)
Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Digital vs film cost)