[rollei_list] Re: Digital Advice
- From: FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 08:23:49 +0100 (BST)
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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