Howdy, folks, Well, in a sense, my K10D just paid for itself and the *ist D and a couple of lenses, to boot. I shot a really big three-day amateur auto racing event this weekend, which I do every year. This is my second or third year shooting it on digital. Only this year did I really get into the digital swing of things, apparently ... I managed to take nearly 3,000 exposures home, not even counting the ones I deleted in the camera.
The last time I shot film, it cost me about US$ 20 per 24-exposure roll for the film, developing, and medium res scanning. Had I been shooting film, last weekend would've cost me around US$ 2,500 in film and associated costs. But it wouldn't have ... on film, I'd never have tripped the shutter that many times. I think the most I ever shot in a four-day event on film was about 50 36 exposure rolls, which is 40% of 3,000 exposures. And I more commonly shot around 30 rolls of 36 each in a 4-day event. :-) I finally find that I'm doing more experimenting with digital as I'm finally getting it through my head that there's no significant additional cost per exposure. I'm taking shots I would never have tried before. I'm taking several of each shot so that hopefully I'll get an acceptable one. Tons of things that I'd never have been able to afford on film. That said, the chore of culling and post-processing 3,000 images is nothing to sneeze at. :-) -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
