[Leica] new 1ds mark II

[feli at creocollective.com (Feli di Giorgio)]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 12:04, B. D. Colen wrote:
> Wow, you sure rack up those numbers fast...$1500 for CF cards? You can
> get a 1gig, 80x card for about $139 - call it $140. 

Considering that you can only get about 20 shots at full res on a 1GB
card (1024MB / 50MB = 20.48), I would think you would need at least 10
of them. Would you go on a job with less than 10 rolls? A lot of
shooters tend to "machine gun" their subjects these days and pick the
"decisive moment" out of a sequence generated by a frame burst. Maybe
you want to run in a dual card setup where the RAW files go to one and
JPGS to another so you can transmit asap.



> So even if you need
> four of them, that's $560, not $1500! And disk space? I just bought an
> external 250 gig usb2/firewire drive for $299. Where are you getting
> these numbers? :-)

I would not trust a single drive system with a paying job. I would build
a mirrored array about 500MB in size, which would be failsafe short of
the building burning down. So, by the time you buy the drives, a case
and a raid controller plus software you are looking at a solid $1000
bucks. $1500 may have been a little high, but you still have to figure
out a reliable longterm storage solution and that's not a backup on to
DVD/CD or tape. Maybe sending the frames to a film recorder as an
additional safety precaution would be a smart thing to do...



> Yes, if you already have a fortune invested in an R system, and don't
> want to dump it, then it might make sense to go with the back...But if
> not...My point is that you were saying the full-frame Canon is
> expensive, when in fact it offers infinitely more in the way of both
> features and image potential than the R back, yet is virtually the same
> price as the R back. So if the Canon is over priced, what's the R back?
> ;-)


I never compared it to the R-back. To me that's a whole different
ballgame. And if I was a shooting pro I would have serious concerns
about using the R-back on a daily basis as my main or perhaps only body.
If I was using a camera which is entirely electronic and sensitive to
dust and moisture I would want as much sealing as I could get and that
means buying a pro level Nikon or Canon.


Feli