[rollei_list] Re: Digital Advice

Digital has radically lowered  the cost of analog a saw a good condition Nikon  
FE the other day for about 50 dollars .
Marvin 
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From: FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 08:23:49 
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Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Digital Advice


For me the cost was simply the camera and printer. I
already had lenses and a computer, the software came
with the camera. The printer, capable of bigger than
A3 prints, was about $800, about the same as my
enlarger and the 2 lenses I used for MF and 35mm. It
produces prints effectively better than I usually got
in my darkroom, which I have now dismantled and
regretfully put in storage. I haven't the heart to
sell anything.
Doubtless if one has everything one needs in a camera
and darkroom and doesn't shoot many photographs going
digital doesn't make much financial sense, but
photography as an enjoyable hobby has never made any
sense financially.......
Frank
--- Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At 02:11 AM 5/30/2008, FRANK DERNIE wrote:
>  >Sorry Marc, Peter is right. All digital cameras
> come
>  >with bundled software necessary to process and
> print
>  >pictures taken with them. Photoshop is
> unnecessary.
>  >Most cameras and photoprinters even come with a
> direct
>  >link so you can print direct from the camera to
> the
>  >printer without a computer at all. I have not used
>  >them myself but I am advised they are very good.
>  >I shot Kodachrome and printed onto Cibachrome
> (later
>  >Ilfochrome) in my own darkroom for over 20 years.
>  >Going digital has improved the quality of the
> prints I
>  >make very considerably, though I don't have the
> latest
>  >model camera or printer. I scan my Rollei
> negatives on
>  >a Nikon 8000 scanner then print digitally by the
> way.
>  >I can not comment on B&W, I have done very little
>  >since the 1970s.
> 
> Hmm.  Understand that I already own all of the 
> stuff necessary to take pictures and to develop 
> and print them.  I do not need to add anything 
> save to find the space for a darkroom to do so.
> 
> Even without Photoshop or like software, the cost 
> is still prohibitive for high-end work:
> 
> camera          at least $800
> lenses                  take your pick, but at 
> least $250 or more for a single one
> printer                 a high-end printer is 
> going to run several thousand dollars
> dedicated computer      $1200 or more (I am 
> running on a 2002 Pentium Four, by the way)
> specialty inks          several hundred dollars, 
> with the need to restock frequrently
> specialty papers        about the same, with 
> usage controlling total price, of course
> 
> Again, I already have all of the darkroom gear 
> and tanks and reels and cameras and chemistry and 
> paper und so weiter.  It is difficult to see how 
> a decent digital set-up can be had for much under 
> $5,000 and it could easily go a lot more, say, with
> a Leica M8.
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
> 
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