Hi! Mike, I am sorry, but there's a little flaw in your otherwise nice argument.
In order to be able to shoot with DSLR with reasonable level of convenience you have to add to this: 1. Some kind of additional storage so that B&H prices would be: - about $300 for 1GB micro drive ether - about $200 for 0.5 GB micro drive or - about $600! for 1GB Compact Flash card or - from $100 to $300 for 0.25-0.5 GB Compact Flash cards or - etc... Say on average you would have to pay some $250 for some storage. Judging from my own experience I would project that quite soon (way sooner than 1 year) you would spend another $250 for some more storage. 2. Now, if we're talking micro drives, and if your DSLR is smart enough to have exchangeable batteries, we might be talking some extra batteries and probably some extra chargers, say car charger. All together my expectation would be that you'd spent on these items anywhere from $250 to $1,000 within the first year after you bought a DSLR. I am counting in these expenses since in case of film camera with a grip you could feed it with cheap AA alkalines that would total in no more than $50 per year. Though this figure is a off the hip estimate. I am too lazy to start counting how many AA batteries you would spend in your film camera. I am willing to subscribe to your argument otherwise. --- Boris Liberman www.geocities.com/dunno57 www.photosig.com/viewuser.php?id=38625
