[Leica] The high price of progress

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Tina Manley said:
Subject: Re: [Leica] The high price of progress

<<< I saved enough to pay for my Canon 1DMII the first two months I had it, 
but then I would have used and
> processed over 300 rolls of film in those two months.<<<<<<<<

Hi Tina,
Absolutely for those who shoot stock or long range photo projects the 
savings are enormous. One of the stock shooters at the photo agency I belong 
to, "MASTERFILE" in Toronto, calculated his film cost savings in one year 
shooting digital was just under $25,000 !!! And several others are in the 
same category.

Many others who use hundreds of rolls of film per month are saving large 
amounts of income by dropping film and going digital. Sure they're using 
$10 - $12,000 dollar digital cameras, but so what, it still comes down to 
it's far cheaper using digital than film.

Now if one is a weekend photo warrior and it's only a few rolls every 6 
months I suppose the cost factor isn't so relevant.

ted