[rollei_list] Re: Digital Advice

in purely financial terms the most expensive part of
film photography is the film and processing, not the
hardware.
Frank
--- marvin0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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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> -----Original Message-----
> 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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