I like that kind of thinking! :) I'm going to do my own calculation, so I can enable myself with a black 77 limited. Hehe
rg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
