"Duncan" <writeonline@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"Tony Polson" <docnews2011@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Woody" <woody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>I had one of those - brilliant camera.
>>>
>>>However you will find two problems (1) sourcing the film amd (2)
getting
>>>it processed - not to mention the cost.
>>
>>
>> The cost????
>>
>> It isn't film that costs money, it's digital.
>>
>> By the time I had bought several DSLR bodies, replacing them as better
>> ones became available, had the sensors professionally cleaned several
>> times, replaced several of my lenses because, while they gave perfect
>> results on film, they didn't work well on digital, upgraded my PC and
>> bought new monitors, a monitor profiler and some very expensive
>> software, plus additional hard disks for storage, burnt a great many
>> CDs and DVDs, and spent a fortune on memory cards ...
>>
>> ... I could have bought and processed all the film I would need for at
>> least the next 20 years.
>>
>> There is nothing expensive about film. Digital is a money pit.
>>
>
>That saved me from writing the exact same thing. Thank you.
You're very welcome.
I'm pretty fed up of people making false claims that digital is better
than film (it is still a long way away, especially in dynamic range)
and that shooting digital is cheap. Well, I suppose it can be cheap
if you just buy a cheap digital point and shoot compact camera, but
not if you want to be serious about photography.
When I totted up the sums I have spent on digital gear in the last
five years, I was pretty shocked. Some of my gear gets a lot of hard
use, shooting on construction sites and on or next to the sea. Cement
and stone dust and salt water spray are camera/lens killers, so I have
to replace my equipment surprisingly often. Upgrading cameras and
lenses when they need replacing means that I cannot take advantage of
anything getting cheaper.
Put all this together with regular upgrades to computer hardware and
software (two PCs at home, one for image editing and the other for the
business side, plus a laptop) and digital photography is extremely
expensive. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either using a cheap point
and shoot compact digicam or deluding themselves.
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