Shel - I am joining the discussion late as I am just back from a 4-day holiday trip down to Eureka Springs. I shot about 500 images with my ist-D. Meg added 8-10 with the Optio. If that were slide film, I would have "paid for" one of my two 512mB cards. In the month or so I have had the ist-D, I have about paid for both cards in saved film purchase and processing. Over the next few days I will "give some of that back" as I select the two or three handfuls I will have printed to take with me to the family Christmas gathering. I have no doubt that in the long run I will come out ahead ussing digital rather than film.
stan on 11/27/03 2:48 PM, Shel Belinkoff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How much film could you buy for the cost of a given memory card? IOW, at what > point does the card start paying for itself? And how many cards do people > have? > > Bruce Dayton wrote: > >> Hope this is making sense. In a nutshell, the ability to shoot >> without the concern of cost. Another example - My wife is quite >> cognizant of the cost per frame on her 35mm camera. I believe it to >> be about .50 each (film/develop/print). So she would mentally count >> the cost as she shot. Opting many times not to take/try a shot >> because she didn't want to pay for it. Now with her little Optio S, >> she will go out and freely shoot whatever takes her fancy. She may >> shoot about 90 frames of which later she wants 5-10 printed. Others >> she may not print but still want to keep, just in case. > >
