Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Jul 18, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Richard Man wrote: > For the advanced amateurs and amateurs, productivity is less of > an issue there. I believe that Doug called attention to both the Economics of $ and time which will affect weekender, advanced amateur, semi-pro and pro alike. How one chooses to spend their time and/or money is not at issue; though the "cost" relationship of gear and materials does seem to be. However - its an impossible thing to get at. I have $20K worth of darkroom equipment; and $30K worth of film cameras sitting idle I can't even begin to imagine how much I've spent on film, processing, paper, chemicals, water filters, et al over the years; nor how many thousands of hours on scanning film; and dollars for drum scans when shooting film professionally. I have spend $60K + on computers and printers since 1985. I've spent somewhere between $15 and 20K on digital cameras (not including glass for them) and I have no idea how many thousands of hours in front of Photoshop or similar SW. One thing I do know - in the days of medium and large format professional, commercial photography - anyone worth their salt could be paid $2K per shoot day. Today, if you're not shooting with a $30K plus digital camera you cannot hope to get near that day rate (with very rare exceptions) because everyone and their brother has a "prosumer" digital camera thats putting out "okay" images. Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist