At 02:35 AM 3/25/2010, Frank Dernie wrote: >Can you let me have a breakdown of the 35 grand requirement please? I >am wondering what essential items I must have forgotten to buy. Sure. Camera $12,000 five lenses 12,000 Photoshop 750 Class in same 2,000 Special printer 2,000 Special inks 2,000 special paper 2,000Every month, the inks and papers have to be replaced. Every six months, the camera and lenses and printer need to be updated. Every year, you need to buy a new version of Photoshop which is so different that you need to take a new class in it.
You might want to subscribe to the Leica Users Group. I unsubscribed when all they were discussing was the huge cost of digital. As I do not do digital, I saw no reason to remain there!
Wait fifty years, and it will work out. The current situation with digital was the situation with film a hundred years back. Things will eventually even out. In thirty years, I might get into digital ...
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