Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/14

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Subject: [Leica] D800E pixel-peepers
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:07:43 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Don Dory wrote:

>Justifying several expensive acquisitions, price needs to account for
>residual value.

Comparing the cost of a film camera and that of a digital camera is 
apples/oranges.  Neither one will make any pictures without extra stuff, so 
you need to include the cost of the extra stuff in the comparison: memory 
cards, batteries, computer, printer; film, processing (or darkroom), etc.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com