In a message dated 11/20/01 2:18:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> "Which means, in turn, that if you buy a $2,000 digital camera, a flash media > card, a card reader, and a copy of Photoshop Elements, the camera will > completely pay for itself in approximately two years. If you shoot more, it > pays for itself even more quickly.* Better, from then on you start SAVING > money you otherwise would have spent. At the rate of $1,400 per year, if you > keep the camera for four years, you got the camera for free and will have > saved $2,800." Even if your figures are correct, does your analysis factor in the cost of printer paper, ink cartridges, spoilage, spillage? My Grands can blow through a color ink cartridge in one afternoon's visit. I've laid in 4 color cartridges just for our Ramadan /Thanskgiving shooting. You know: using the DC power supply, hook the camera to the computer and let them shoot. They'll snap all 50 of the low-res images once (more likely twice), print the ones which are funny, or has this or that pair (trio-etc.) of cousins-etc. I can see up to 250 sheets of paper being used just on that foolishness. Doing (choice) negatives myself, I maybe use one or two sheets for testing before printing the "final," keeper image. I am reminded that ink, even that cheap refill stuph at Walmart, is ~not~ cheap. Then you have all those bad images you try to make "right" in the computer or using with different printer settings but fail, the half dozen opened packages of "unsatisfactory" inkjet paper, and "free" isn't really free. Mafud [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
