On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:04:18AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
> Even if your figures are correct, does your analysis factor in the cost of > printer paper, ink cartridges, spoilage, spillage? But his figure per film is just for the processing. If you want prints from slides, you'd have to pay for those too. > My Grands can blow through > a color ink cartridge in one afternoon's visit. .... but an ink cartridge is cheap compared to the priceless memories of your grandkids having fun, right? (I'm too young, but I hope one day I'll be able to experience first-hand.) > 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. I find I go through a lot more paper in the darkroom. Once I've done all my test strips to work out printing contrast, printing density and focussing, there's no point making just one print, so I make at least two, just in case. Then there's always wastage from trying to print a negative that just won't give a "good" print (or getting a good print requires too much effort.) (Not to mention the occasional screw-up such as when I forget to stop-down the lens.) -- Francis Tang, Postgraduate Research Student. LFCS, Div. of Informatics, Uni. of Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK. Tel: +44 131 6505185. Fax: +44 131 6677209. Office: 1603, JCMB, KB. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/fhlt/ - 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 .
