Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I fear the M8 will set my retirement back a year ;-) > 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 ;-) >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >