RE: [Leica] Bulk loading (long!)

["Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>]

Jerry,

> Then please tell me what is cheaper, PER PHOTO?

Among other things, the answer depends on how much you 
spend on film per roll, and how many frames you think 
your equipment will take over the course of its lifetime.

For the amateur, the major costs are film and equipment.
I usually budget $20 for film per roll of 36
for film and processing, for about 55 cents a photo.
Even at $12/roll, it's 33 cents a photo.

Assuming my (Leica, arguably the most expensive in 35mm) equipment 
cost is $8K, (perhaps 1 body and 3 lenses plus accessories, 
plus CLA), and it lasts 150,000 frames, the equipment costs 
less than 6 cents per photo.  This assumes the equipment has no 
residual value after 150,000 frames; otherwise the 
equipment cost per frame is even lower.  I pick 150,000
because I vaguely remember that's the rating for the
Nikon F shutter curtain.

You can push the various parameters one way or another
pretty far and film cost still remains more expensive.
Is my argument reasonable ?  Did I do my math correctly ?

What are your calculations that lead you to say that
film is the cheapest cost per photo ?

- - Phong




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jerry
> Lehrer
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 8:19 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Bulk loading (long!)
> 
> 
> Phong
> 
> Then please tell me what is cheaper, PER PHOTO?
> 
> Jerry
> 
> Phong wrote:
> 
> > Jerry,
> >
> > As Karen posted earlier, film spending runs in the thousands
> > _every_ year, more than any single other photography item I
> > can think of, unless you often upgrade your equipment, digital
> > or otherwise.  So I disagree that film is the cheapest item
> > in photography.
> >
> > On the other hand, taking time into the equation, I am not sure
> > if it's wothwhile for me to bulk load.  Although, my
> > in-laws have just retired and moved in nearby, and she is very
> > attentive to details, hum ...  :-)
> >
> > - Phong
> >
> > NO ARCHIVE
> > definitely not
> >
> > Jerry Lehrer wrote:
> > > LUGers
> > >
> > > As my Photo Club mentor at the Bronx High School of Science
> > > said 55 years ago:  "Film is the cheapest item in photography, time
> > > is the dearest".
> > >
> > > Jerry
> >
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