Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Being a keen amateur photographer I got to know the pros who shoot Formula 1 pretty well over the 35 years I was travelling to races. I remember one of the first ones to change over to digital telling me his camera, the top Nikon digital SLR, had paid for itself in 4 months in saved film costs. Digital was much more relatively e-x-p-n-s-i-v-e then too... Frank? >________________________________ > From: "tedgrant at shaw.ca" <tedgrant at shaw.ca> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Monday, 19 December 2011, 15:12 >Subject: Re: [Leica] Looking at buying an M8 > >Jayanand OFFERED: > >> Frank, >> Yes - but I bet you junked 99.9% of the clicks - in other words, most were >> not required, and a total waste - most of us do end up with 10 identical >> shots pretty often, don't we? Digital is not cheap, once you factor in the >> cost, in terms of hardware, software and time that you spend in post >> processing and digital printing as well. There are many reasons why I am >> exclusively using digital nowadays, but low cost is most definitely not >> one >> of them.<<<<<<<< > >Hi? Jayanand, >May I make a small offering on digital VS film costs. >MASTERFILE Stock Agency in Toronto, Canada? with several offices about the >world.? Some of the top end photographers when stock was selling well and >they were all using film cameras were astounded when doing a complete >switch to all digital in their film cost savings in the first year. > >Bill Brooks, I suppose the leader of the 50 photographers shooting for this >outfit saved........ $20,000 dollars in film and processing cost first year >changing to only digital. As it turned out their over all production of >high end images increased, they? shot more and different variations, yet >their over all costs went down.? He wasn't alone in this kind of saving. > >Given my film costs during the "good old days?" Was always a cost many >people I shot assignments for whined about. But once going to digital and >we charge for computer time instead of film the whining has stopped. > >In any event I'll take digital over film any day and my only complaint >about digital is.......... "It's 50 years too late!" :-) And I use M8 and >love it! Obviously I prefer M9's, but for now the M8's work just fine. > >cheers, >Dr. ted :-) > > > > > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i at >earthlink.net> >To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2011 9:19 PM >Subject: Re: [Leica] Looking at buying an M8 > > >> My hit rate is a bit better than 0.1%....? 1:1000 is pretty dismal..... >> >>? I think the more you must think about the image, taking your time with >> metering the exposure by hand, using a tripod for exact camera placement, >> focus accuracy, and having to set the camera up completely, you rarely >> waste >> your time with "lousy" images.? My 6x6 hit rate is considerably higher >> than >> my 35mm ever was..... >> >> The point I was making is Digital cost payback is a pretty hard >> analysis...... >> >> Sort of like comparing the M8 total cost with the M9 total cost........ It >> is not as simple as the $4-5K body cost difference..... >> >> Frank Filippone >> Red735i at earthlink.net >> >> >> Frank, >> Yes - but I bet you junked 99.9% of the clicks - in other words, most were >> not required, and a total waste - most of us do end up with 10 identical >> shots pretty often, don't we? Digital is not cheap, once you factor in the >> cost, in terms of hardware, software and time that you spend in post >> processing and digital printing as well. There are many reasons why I am >> exclusively using digital nowadays, but low cost is most definitely not >> one >> of them. >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >