Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/18

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Subject: [Leica] Looking at buying an M8
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:19:38 -0800
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My hit rate is a bit better than 0.1%....  1:1000 is pretty dismal.....

  I think the more you must think about the image, taking your time with
metering the exposure by hand, using a tripod for exact camera placement,
focus accuracy, and having to set the camera up completely, you rarely waste
your time with "lousy" images.  My 6x6 hit rate is considerably higher than
my 35mm ever was.....

The point I was making is Digital cost payback is a pretty hard
analysis......

Sort of like comparing the M8 total cost with the M9 total cost........  It
is not as simple as the $4-5K body cost difference.....

Frank Filippone
Red735i at earthlink.net


Frank,
Yes - but I bet you junked 99.9% of the clicks - in other words, most were
not required, and a total waste - most of us do end up with 10 identical
shots pretty often, don't we? Digital is not cheap, once you factor in the
cost, in terms of hardware, software and time that you spend in post
processing and digital printing as well. There are many reasons why I am
exclusively using digital nowadays, but low cost is most definitely not one
of them.
Cheers
Jayanand




Replies: Reply from tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca) ([Leica] Looking at buying an M8)
In reply to: Message from wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] Looking at buying an M8)
Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] Looking at buying an M8)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Looking at buying an M8)