On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:13:35 -0400, Herb Chong wrote: > even with me being a nickel and dime stock photography person, > i spend substantially more than $1K/year on film and processing. > if i went 100% digital, the *istD could pay for itself in as few > as 4 months.
Ignoring ancillaries (memory cards, etc.) an *ist-D at US$ 1700 would pay for itself in almost exactly two years based on my usage. A three day race usually runs me from 30 to 40 rolls of film (800-1000 exposures). My recent five day vacation was 20 rolls (about 600 exposures). Add a bit to pay for the memory cards, etc. I already have all of the computer stuff necessary, including printer. I'm seriously considering it. The only down side is that several of my lenses are SMC or SMC-M (or 3rd party equivalents). The up side of that is that my three most used lenses are F or FA level. TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ
