Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I like digital as well film (I shoot mostly B&W film), but the cost thing is quite humorous. My father wanted a digital camera. He's quite thrifty and just can't get past the film/processing thing and has never taken many pics. He was convinced that digital would be cheaper, just convinced. So I got him a lovely little Canon A75 for his b'day. Whoops, CF card is kinda tiny. Add some $$. Then he discovers something the matter with his (oldish) PC's USB port. More $$ and futzing. Doesn't have a color printer (he'd freak at the paper/ink costs anyway). So he's paying to get prints anyway. More $$. All in all, this is a man who might shoot 3 24 exposure rolls per year, and would happily frequent one of the photolabs that gives you a free roll of cheap film with development! He could have gotten away nicely with an Oly Epic film P&S. Oh well, he was just convinced digi would be cheaper ;-) OTOH, I've been in the PC tech biz my whole career, and I find that many, many folks just like spending $$ on technology. Some kind of personal empowerment buzz or something. Rational or not, I'm for it :-) Scott joelct wrote: >Doug > >You may not have read my earlier threads re 'planned obsolescence' at the >consumers' expense - but that's how the way the world of modern technology >tightens it noose around us and empties our pockets > >Joseph Low >Singapore > > > >--- dnygr <dnygr@cshore.com> wrote: > > > >>Someone wrote regarding Contax that certain camera manufacturers >>didn't predict how quickly the change to digital would be and noted >>how typewriter manufacturers had done the same thing. >> >>What a costly change it has been to move from typewriters fo >>computerized word processing. Every few years, our equipment needs >>to be replaced because it is dated. That rate of change and its >>accompanying cost was not true of the typewriter age. I'm not >>speaking against the change, but I am noting that many of us now are >>spending a lot more money to type our messages than we would be if >>we still used typewriters. I fear the same will be true for our >>photography. We will be spending money on new cameras as ours become >>obsolete. If we print our own photos, we will be spending outrageous >>amounts on printer ink (doesn't it seem that printer ink sells for >>about $3,000 a gallon!). >> >>What it boils down to, in my estimatin, is that you and I will be >>spending a lot more money in the digitl camera age. It looks like >>the price of progress. >> >>Doug Nygren >> >> >>________________________________________________________________ >> >> >> >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >>information >> >> >> >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >