Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 6/16/2003 11:09:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:

> >Claude writes:
> >
> >>The Sigma SD-9 acts more like film than any other
> >>single shot digicam and it's only $1,200 street
> >>price ...
> >
> >You can get an excellent film SLR for $250 or so.
> >
> And it won't be outdated in another six months...and your "negatives" won't
> be obsolete either when the technology improves likewise...you can simply
> rescan the film.  If you capture the image with a 6megapixel camera...that's
> all image will ever be.
> 
> Robert
> 

Film gets outdated the same way that digicams do. I have some frozen VPS or 
Ektachrome 64 film I'll let you have real cheap. There is not as much R&D money 
being spent on new films anymore, because it is fast becoming a nitch market. 
The great part of film, historically, is that you could get an update of 
technology by simply buying a new emulstion to use in your same old hardware. A 
benefit we probably took for grated as we did not have digicams to contrast 
against.

As to the outdated aspects of digicams, it they work well right now for what 
you are doing, there is no reason to upgrade. I'm still making money on with 
my 6 year old cameras.

The only thing that will make digicams truly obsolete is when focal plane 
shutters wear out and you have to decide whether to spend hundreds to fix it, or 
over a thousand to upgrade. At that point, the amount of money you have saved 
on film and processing should more than make up for the loss of the camera, so 
the economics do make sense for some people.

I paid off my Canon D-30 in two weeks. I shot 10,000 images with it and that 
would have been about $3,000 in film and processing alone..........except the 
market application demanded immediate printing and/or the sale of a CD with 
JPEGS on it. At that point, I could have thrown it away and it owed me nothing 
as I walked away with a good sum of money when the gig was over.

Either way, it's nice to have so many choices in the world.



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