One of the real big pluses for me of digital over Medium Format was the price/cost of film/developing. It gets very expensive. On the digital side, I can at least practice and experiment without so much cost.
Bruce Wednesday, December 10, 2003, 2:53:32 PM, you wrote: RS> On 10 Dec 2003 at 9:46, Mark Roberts wrote: >> Pittsburgh. Only two really serious photo shops here. The one near me >> has cut back on film *drastically* - from three film fridges to one. And >> that one's only 1/3 full. And it's mostly color neg for the wedding >> photographers (those who still shoot film, anyway). For professional >> slide film I'm pretty much resigned to using mail order. RS> In the city of Sydney (pop 5mil) we have at least 2 shops with 4 or more RS> fridges full of Pro films and many more with one or two. So there is plenty of RS> stock but the prices would scare the hell out of you. I even picked up Provia RS> and Portra in roll film in Launceston and Hobart in Tasmania (475thousand) last RS> trip, price nearly killed me though. RS> Rob Studdert RS> HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA RS> Tel +61-2-9554-4110 RS> UTC(GMT) +10 Hours RS> [EMAIL PROTECTED] RS> http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ RS> Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
