On 11/23/05, Herb Chong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > alternate scenario - to get Robert's services, Frank has to pay twice as > much, plus pay more for B&W film.
Twice as much? Right now I have 5 film bodies that I use on a regular basis. They've long since been paid for. How many digital bodies would I need to replace them? How much would that cost? I'd like to have not just a dslr (I'd prefer two), but a digital rangefinder (that Epson ain't cheap). I wouldn't even bother thinking of "replacing" my old Yashicamat, so I'm looking at minimum three bodies. My computer at home is a dinosaur. It would cost thousands to upgrade it to a point where it would be an efficient tool for processing/post processing/storage device. I don't have a photo-quality printer, so tack on hundreds more. I'm figuring that it's gonna cost me at least $6,000 to put me in a position where my digital capabilities are equivalent to what I now have in film - and that's likely an low estimate. Even if it's argued that I could get away with one body, the cost of that plus computer upgrades would be minimun $3,000 Add to that the fact that going digital will take many hours per week of my time doing PS crap that I really don't like doing (and there's got to be a cost consideration to that), and I think I'm saving big-time by sticking with film. I really don't see how you can say that film is costing me "twice as much" as going digital. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
