Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: George Huczek <ghuczek@sk.sympatico.ca> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 03:59 Subject: [Leica] The cost of going digital > I would argue that you do not save money by going digital. You save a bundle by going to digital. The only thing preventing everyone from going to digital right now is that the upper limit on image quality is much lower, especially for equal initial investment in cameras. That will change, however, and eventually digital will pretty much take over. It will be slower than it was with audio and publishing and what-not because the required bandwidth is many orders of magnitude higher. The same holds for cinematography. > There is no justification in going digital if your sole > objective is to try to minimize film and lab processing costs. If my sole objective were to minimize film and lab processing costs, I'd sell all my cameras except the Nikon Coolpix 950 digital camera. It only costs me about a penny a shot (for batteries). -- Anthony