[Leica] Reality Check re: Digital vs Film vs Cost

[ruben at rhodos.dk (Ruben)]

In other words - if you are an eager amateur and shoot two rolls of 120 a
week at 15 USD or 104 rols a year you wil have earnt  the P25 back in only
18 years give and take a little - with over how many million MF cameras of
good quality around I do see a film future at least for EFKE and perhaps
Fuji - who knows - of all the digital equipments I have seen, tried or read
about only the new backs from Phase ONE, Imacon and Leaf and the two top
Canons seems two be able to handle the task - The point and shoots and the
digital rebel and the Hybrids from Sony frankly does not live up to the
pleasure of shooting Leica, Rollei or Hasselblad IMHO ETC :-) Perhaps there
is a new market for regaining the leading role on film - like polaroid did
with the cameras sold them cheap and made money on film - Kodak or Fuji
could produce a top notch filmscanner, sell it cheap in order to sell more
films - it must be much easier to produce a filmscanner the a digiback that
has two go anywere etc.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philippe Orlent" <philippe.orlent@pandora.be>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Reality Check re: Digital vs Film vs Cost


> >From the review:
>
> suppose 10 rolls of 220 film a day costing about 15$ each everything
> included = 150$
> suppose 15 days of work per month = 15 x 150 = 2,250$
> so 16,990/2,250= 7,5 months
> so 29990/2250= 13,5 months
>
> So these backs pay themselves back in a relatively short period of time,
if
> you're a professional photographer.
>
> No more lab, no more time losses, immediate results on the spot, and a
> quality equal to or higher than analog.
>
> I'm afraid the end of the analog era is nearing.
> ---
>
> > From: George Lottermoser <george@imagist.com>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:30:24 -0500
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Reality Check re: Digital vs Film vs Cost
> >
> > Feli di Giorgio7/13/04
> >
> >> "The P20 carries a list price of USD $16,990. The P25 costs $29,990."
> >
> > And let us remember that these are "camera backs" no body, no shutter,
no
> > lens, no meter. Just the digital equivalent of film.
> >
> > Fond regards,
> >
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