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

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Subject: [Leica] Digital questions . . . .
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Mon Oct 9 21:08:50 2006
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And I just thought of another cost (or waste), I've been disposing of all
my excess colour paper chemistry and will probably never use my analysers
colour heads and other parafernalia ;-)

> 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 ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
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