Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, you might also have fun with http://www.i4u.com/article16316.html and get a free full frame refill every ten years or so ;-) for the cherry on top of it phx <http://www.i4u.com/article16316.html>Mark Rabiner wrote: >As I've mentioned numerous times over the months the camera I'd been mainly >using was the Nikon D40x. >Its compact in that sense Leica Like. And I tend to have it with me wherever >I go. To the movies. To the bathroom. Put it under my pillow at night. And >use it for jobs as well. >I"d walked into a Best Buy 5 months ago and got my first 4 gig card for it >for what felt like chump change at the time. And SD card. >So I got 300 + shots on a roll with it! >That itself may have been the reason why this camera stole my heart over >these many months. The 2 Gig compact flash cards I had for my D200 only had >about 120 shots in them. I had two of them and needed both. Then I had a >bunch of 100 gig cards only 60 on a roll. So with the D200 I was shuffling >cards in the dark or the hot sun. >When I went out with the D40x I was ok with that one card. >And the little battery also I didn't need to bring a backup. >Lasts a week on one charge. > >So the other day earlier in the week I was thinking I thought.... >Wonder what the 4 gig Compact flash cards are costing nowadays? >As I was getting back to carrying all that extra weight and awesomeness of >the D200 again... More control. More choice of glass. >Well then it occurred to me that Compact Flash cards are supposed to be >CHEAPER than SD cards anyway. MORE MEGS FOR THE BUCK! >So I got on the B&H site to check out the price point on their 4 gig cards >to see if I could swing it. >Was I surprised to find that not just the 4 but the EIGHT GIG cards are now >in the less than hundred dollar - Mark can afford it now - range. >I'm skipping the 4 gigs. 4 gigs are for babies! >So I picket up my 8 gig card two days ago. SanDisk Extreme III >less than 100 bucks. >$99.99 >Almost 500 shots on a roll I could not believe it! >My D200 felt much more awesome in my hand. It nearly vibrated with >potential! >I knew that whatever it was; >I was going to shoot the heck out of it. >Nothing was beyond my limitations >I have achieved Global Domination! > >Next comes Terabyte hard disks as I'll need those. They are flying out the >Apple Store and B&H for chump change I guess. >Gigs gigs the musical fruit the more you click the more you cram into your >even bigger hard disks. > >And the better your shots with more to choose from is the main idea. > >It's the percentages which makes for the best shots once you've gotten into >roll film and beyond is what I think. If you pick 20 shots out of 300 >they're going to be much better shots than if you pick them out of 72 or >144. >Now I'm picking them out of 500 or close. >Pick out 50, take out 10. >Whittle away another 10. Then 10 more again. >What are you left with? >You dazzle yourself unless you had a very unlucky day. >"I shot those!?" you can really impress yourself if the percentages are low >enough. >The Cr?me de la Cr?me has truly arrived. > > >Last I looked 1.5 years ago I think the 8 gig CF cards cost $1600! > >Mark William Rabiner >markrabiner.com > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >