Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/09

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Subject: [Leica] Digital questions . . . .
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Mon Oct 9 16:18:46 2006
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Thanks Alastair--

This is a valuable voice while we all come into heat about the M8.  
It's especially helpful to those of us who will have to wait until we  
can become third generation owners;^)

I'm still lusting, but this helps with some of the sting.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/f/Passing-Fancies


On Oct 9, 2006, at 6:40 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote:

> Well, we bought a digital SLR to go to Antarctica: it paid for  
> itself, because Helen won a trip to the Arctic, BUT, it was not  
> without some "cost". Now I'm NOT trying to compare with film  
> "fairly". I know there are more costs of running film, and that is  
> one reason to go digital, BUT my point is the cost does not stop  
> with the purchase of the camera. OK so here goes in point form:
>
> - the cost of the camera was "enhanced" by the extra batteries we  
> felt we would need to have
> - we took an iPod to back up to, and soon discovered that the files  
> were too big for the pod to transfer all 2 gb of the card without  
> the iPod "stopping". So we needed, and had to borrow a laptop  
> (thanks Christian, it saved my ass ;-) ) so really, I will have to  
> have a laptop in future. That laptop cannot be my 5 year old iBook  
> (I did not take it at the last minute when I realized that it would  
> only hold 3 of the camera's cards on its HD and that it took an  
> "hour" to open each file), so there is another AUD 4000 which needs  
> to be spent
> - at the end of each day, I spent hours downloading backing up  
> sorting and burning the files: with film I would have been in the  
> bar making use of the social side of the trip ;-)
> - On arrival home we began sorting etc and soon overpowered the  
> desktop's power and storage: Now I need to look at a new faster  
> computer with a bigger hard disc and in the short run, I've had to  
> purchase 2 large external hard drives.
> - sorting RAW files is slow, and I don't have a lot to spare ;-)  
> which pushes the need for good organization etc. This means not  
> only better faster computing, but bigger better programmes such as  
> CS2 PS and Lightroom etc. As I pointed out at a talk on photography  
> on the ship, there is no use taking RAW files if you a) don't know  
> how to "develop" them and b) have the hardware and software and  
> time to do so.
>
> All of this is a bit unexpected, and to top it off the camera was  
> really pretty cheap by digital standards, so of course it broke  
> down after such heavy use: fixed by Olympus under warranty, but  
> really, you need to carry two cameras not the risk we took with  
> only one (I was using a hasselblad, which would have become our  
> "back-up", but I did not take enough films to make the 1000 images  
> we took with the Olympus, and in the end, my exposures were not  
> that flash with the blad -- something I only realized when I got  
> home, so of course you can argue that with film I would need to  
> have another 2 weeks in the Antarctic and that would pay for 10  
> cameras ;-)
>
> Cheers
> On 09/10/2006, at 21:56, Ric Carter wrote:
>
>> Alastair--
>>
>> How about a little expansion of your thinking here?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ric Carter
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/f/Passing-Fancies
>>
>> On Oct 8, 2006, at 6:27 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote:
>>
>>> The slippery slope is the hidden cost of going digital: but you  
>>> will find out ;-)
>>
>>
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