Re: [Leica] Leica and digital photography

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Come on, Austin - I'm not going to get in an argument with you, because I
know I can't possibly win ;-)....But....I suppose we're assuming that one
already has a computer...

But let's see, film is how much per roll, assuming one is shooting color
negative - or slide? And processing is how much per roll? And once one goes
digital one presumably never again has to buy film or pay for processing?

I know that I pay about $2 per roll for gray market tri-x, and pay $8 per
roll for processing....so if I shoot 25 rolls, that's $250  per job. Which
means that if I was shooting a job a week, which I'm not, in my first year I
could set up a terrific digital darkroom, with all the redundency one could
possibly want, and enough storage media to carry me for years to come....and
then the next year I could start replacing digital equipment.....all out of
my film and processing money....

Now, if only I can convince myself to sell my Leica equipment to finance the
purchase of the digital equipment.....but so far my digital side hasn't
managed to convince my analogue side...;-)

B. D.
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Austin Franklin <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 5:12 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica and digital photography


> > Face it, despite what someone suggested, digital saves money. You
> > can argue
> > all you want about the quality, but no one who has any idea what so ever
> > what they're talking about will contend that digital is more
> > expensive than
> > film.
> >
> > B. D.
>
> Hum.  Well, what about the cost of storing the digital images (and you do
> need multiple copies BTW)?  They can be burned to CD, and you can get 500
or
> so per CD I'd guess, but you do need to have a computer with a CD
> writer...and that doesn't come free.  It isn't that expensive, but it sure
> does enter into the equation.  Storing film is cheap, put it in a
box...but
> there really, at least in my book, isn't a clear winner as far as cost goe
s,
> and I'm hard pressed to accept a blanket statement that digital is
cheaper,
> since I know for me, it hasn't been...but then, I probably don't have any
> idea what so ever what I'm talking about ;-)
>
> Austin
>
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