Now that my istD is on its last few weeks as my main camera, I was thinking about costs per picture. I came up with the following:
I paid about $1200 for the istD in 2004. Plus, say, $200 in memory cards (I think it was a bit more). I'm not going to count any of the lenses I bought during this time, as these are usable in future cameras, and I'm not counting batteries as that's a small amount. My istD took about 14000 pictures in this time, so that works out to about 10 cents per frame shot. Before the istD my main camera was the M6, and I'd shoot TriX, bought from B&H, at I believe $3.50 per roll of 36 for imported TriX (which strangely, was cheaper than the stuff made for the US market). I'd develop at home and then scan the negs. Let's say it cost me about $1 per roll to develop, not counting my time of course. That's12.5 cents per frame. I'm not counting the cost of the film camera or scanner, since I'm interested in how much digital saved me given my preexisting situation. So in conclusion, I saved about 2.5 cents per frame shot, or about $350 in these two years. Of course, this is my very specific case, and your mileage will probably vary. That, plus the time saved, and everything I learned thanks to the instant feedback. BTW, it turns out to be just a little bit less than the cost of the new 21mm Limited lens, so I think I'm ordering one :) How's that for self-enablement? j -- Juan Buhler - http://www.jbuhler.com photoblog: http://photoblog.jbuhler.com a book: http://www.jbuhler.com/book.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
