Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, you said 100 lire per image, not $100 - "This was an unfortunate admission on my part as professional photographers must pay an extra fee of 100 Lire for there pictures. I could accept that for a day of shooting within the ruins. Then my interpreter discovered the fee was for each exposure. I asked did they mean each different location or each time I exposed a frame? The fee was charged for every time the camera went click! Imagine a 36 exposure roll was going to cost 3600 Lire. I probably would shoot 10 or twenty rolls during the day and that got to be very very expensive and that was more than I could accept!" 100 lire is 6 1/2 cents, and so 20 rolls = 72,000 lire = $47. So in my opinion, if it's lire, you were indeed a bit of a cheapskate (not that I blame you for that!) if it was dollars, nobody in their right mind could blame you. Nick ----- Original Message ---- From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, 16 July, 2006 3:48:01 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Professional Tourist Nick Roberts offered: Subject: Re: [Leica] Professional Tourist > Hmmm Ted, I'm not going to comment on the ethics, but your maths are way, > way out - 10-20 rolls would've been nearer $50 at the rate you quoted, > nothing like $100,000.<<, Hi Nick, I think you must have misunderstood the math or I didn't make it clear. The charge was "per frame exposed" or each time the camera went "click," accept during the loading a roll sequence. And they were going to have one of their staff with us until we were finished the shoot doing the count. 30 rolls X 36 exp. equals 1080 exposures times $100.oo per frame equals...... $108,000. oo according to mine in Rome and now here at home. ;-) The bottom line of the money making event? Over the years I believe a half dozen images have been sold, $150.oo each or there about, certainly none hire. A few used in my Leica Seminar presentations and some amateur slide presentations. So anyone out there who thinks we were wrong in our ethics at getting some frames and beat the local folks for $100,000.oo because we played tourist when we were a professional crew with interpreter might like to think again. ted _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information