Digital BW, The Print

Encouraging and practical comments, from all of you. Certainly what I put out for the 
r1800 is nothing to what I paid for my Canon 1Ds five years ago, which is now almost 
obsolete as well. At the time I purchased it I had the $$ and the assumption it would be 
my last camera if I took good care of it. Well, I have, but it's clearly not.  The 5D Mark II 
looks like the answer to all my current camera gripes....but so did the 1DS at the time it 
came out. Such a cash outlay is no longer possible for me, so I'll make do with the 1Ds, 
knowing that when I'm ready for another I will A) never spend as much as I did for the 1Ds 
even if I have the $$, and B) understand that just because the technology is out there 
doesn't mean I need it (want is a separate issue!).

thanks for the good words...
Sarah


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" <tyler@...> wrote:
>
> I don't think either of you should have buyer's remorse. Something did come along, the 
> 1900, which I have been playing with, and my 1400 is going on ebay soon.
> The right 1400 could very well drive you to near suicide with it's paper feeding. It is 
> designed for thinner papers, given the inkset, something David Tobie said which put a 
> light bulb over my dim brain.
> You can make it work, but some people had theirs replaced, and the rest of us learned 
to 
> constantly clean the paper advance mechanism to keep it working. So far the 1900 is 
> working, but it looks like a very similar advance system to me, with no paper thickness 
> adjustment like the old printers.
> The fact is, even though in this economy every penny is felt, we are taking pretty cheap 
> mechanisms that have a product life of a year, and a user life of maybe 5, and using 
them 
> in ways for which they were not intended.
> It's a crap shoot anyway. So as Tim Gunn says- make it work.
> Your 1800 that is.
> Tyler
> http://www.custom-digital.com/
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Whiting" 
> <paulmwhiting@> wrote:
> >
> > "Sarah Renkes"  wrote:
> > >
> > > Paul, I wish I'd known you felt that way three months ago. After a
> > year of saving up for an 
> > > 1800 I am pretty disappointed.
> > > 
> > > Sarah
> > 
> > Sarah,
> > 
> > I had a little "buyer's remorse" myself, right after I got my 1800, it
> > seemed, the 1400 came out. But Paul and Scott both make good points.
> > And probably soon after the 1400 gets well-established, something
> > better will come along! Seems to be the case, as Paul said, it's the
> > nature of the rapid technological change we live in. And I was
> > encouraged by Scott's comments on Dmax and speed in the 1800.
> > 
> > The way I look at it now, might as well get comfortable with my
> > current setup, learn all I can, and then perhaps move along to the
> > next step... it may be something much better eventually.
> > 
> > Paul
> >
>