FWIW:
For the D30, RAW files are 3.4 MB (not 2 MB), approx. 100
images fit on a 340 MB microdrive (300 images on the 1GB
version drive).
> Epson is less than $150), memory cards (one 340 MB microdrive will handle
> all but the most extended vacation, especially with Canon's RAW mode only
> producing 2MB files)
"all but the most extended vacation"?
Obviously, mileage varies. I can easily go thru 5 to 10
rolls of film a day, sometimes a lot more. I've done as
many as 79 rolls (yes, that's rolls) on just one weekend.
Not really unheard of - for a pro, which I'm not.
During the past two trips to Las Vegas I averaged approx.
200 exposures a day.
In the US, film & processing estimate at about $10 per roll
for "pro" slide film. If a D30 plus microdrive sells for
roughly $3k, the break-even point for the initial costs for
the camera body is at 300 rolls of film or roughly 11000
exposures. I'm at almost 5000 exposures after three months.
And this doesn't even take the time for scanning and dust
spotting (easily 1 hour per frame) into account. At a
labor rate of say $20 per hour (my actual hourly rate is
higher), this gets expensive real fast, and it dwarfes
the cost for film and processing.
I still shoot slide film, but not as much as I used to.
And mainly to clear out the film and mailers I still have
in storage, and for those extreme wide-angle and ultra-high
definition shots.
Lars
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