[Leica] RE Cost of pictures

[Sonny Carter]

I don't think digital has changed me in respect to how much I shoot.  I am
at about the same level in shooting I was in film, the equivalent of maybe
three rolls a week, and a couple rolls at something like a car show.

I'm reminded of a time after I found a really pretty good Mini lab in New
Orleans with easy parking.  After a couple weeks, the lab manager took me
aside, and offered to give me some photography training.

He was concerned that for every shot I was making three identical images,
except I was changing the exposure on each and wasting film.

I asked him if he had ever heard of bracketing . . .

Digital has made me a better photographer in that I can review the images
on site, in that my camera is capable of what once was medium format
quality, and even my f4 zoom can see in the dark.

SonC

On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 8:09 AM, James Handsfield <jhandsfield at att.net>
wrote:

> One of the reasons I like digital is that I don’t have to worry about the
> economy of film.  On my Iceland trip, I took almost 2000 photos.  Many of
> those were in continuous middle speed runs to capture geysers throughout an
> eruption.  One of those turned out good enough to publish but I still need
> to work on that one a bit.
>
> Jim Handsfield
>
> > On Sep 1, 2018, at 12:20 AM, Lawrence Zeitlin via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> >
> > As a point of interest, the latest issue of Science magazine, the
> journal of the AAAS, reports on the annual number of photographs taken. “In
> the early 1800s, the first ever photograph was taken, an unassuming picture
> that required days of exposure to obtain a very grainy image. Over one
> million photos were taken during the US Civil war of which 100,000 survive.
> In the late 1800s, photography was used for the first time to see the
> movement of a running horse that was too fast for the human eye. In the
> following years photography played a pivotal role in human history, ranging
> from creation of the national parks in the USA all the way to documenting
> NASA’s first moon mission  In the 1900s, roughly 10 billion photographs
> were taken per year. Facilitated by the explosion of the internet, we will
> approach 2 trillion images this year - roughly about 1000 images per year
> for every person on the planet.”
> >
> > As a frequent reviewer of art and photo shows in the TriState area I
> have noticed several results of this plethora of images. First, figurative
> images are almost impossible to sell. Unless directly ordered by the
> recipient (i.e. a portrait or picture at ones children or a prized
> possession) the chance of selling any image approaches zero. Second, we
> have run out of wall space to exhibit images. It is virtually impossible to
> book a display space unless reserved far in advance. Modern houses have too
> many windows and too little blank wall space.
> >
> > I can conceive on only one simple fix for too many images. Raise the
> cost to at least one USD per exposure. Use film instead of digital.
> Currently it costs only pennies to take and print a picture. At current
> rates a year’s worth of photos requires only a few dollars of expense. The
> price of a new Leica kit is  thousands of times more expensive. Does anyone
> have a more sensible solution?
> >
> > Larry Z
> >
> >
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Sonny
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