Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 6/10/2004 3:40:12 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com writes:

> FWIW, I felt the same way.   If you go onto Amazon and check out their "New 
> 
> and Used From ..." section for the printer, you will find a number of these 
> printers offered for about $55, new in the box, but with the Proof of 
> Purchase 
> cut off of the box.   Obviously, these vendors are buying the machines for 
> the 
> rebates and reselling them for some profit.   I bought one -- I figure I'd 
> rather pay $55 and not have to go through the hassle of submitting rebate 
> forms.   
> It might not be the cheapest route, but it certainly seems to the easiest 
> cheap route.
> 
> Sanders McNew


This whole thing sure is a lot of fun and totally cracks me up. When you 
consider that you can make some darn nice 8x10 prints for less than $1.00 each 
from an $89 printer vs. a full B&W darkroom of the past. Digital phtotography 
sure is cheap. Doesn't bode well for those making a full time living from it, in 
a sense.

Claude




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Major motion pictures cost millions (sometimes hundreds of millions) but we
buy a DVD for $20. Picasso's painting are make from materials that cost a
few dollars but we pay millions to buy one. Cost of production and value
have no relationship to one another with regard to creative endeavors. This
is why the IRS no longer allows market value deductions for artists that
donate work to auctions or museums, etc.

Wendel

> 
> This whole thing sure is a lot of fun and totally cracks me up. When you
> consider that you can make some darn nice 8x10 prints for less than $1.00 each
> from an $89 printer vs. a full B&W darkroom of the past. Digital phtotography
> sure is cheap. Doesn't bode well for those making a full time living from it,
> in 
> a sense.
> 
> Claude

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Wendel White 
<wendel@b...> wrote:
> Major motion pictures cost millions (sometimes hundreds of 
millions) but we
> buy a DVD for $20. Picasso's painting are make from materials that 
cost a
> few dollars but we pay millions to buy one. Cost of production and 
value
> have no relationship to one another with regard to creative 
endeavors. This
> is why the IRS no longer allows market value deductions for artists 
that
> donate work to auctions or museums, etc.
> 
> Wendel
> 

Yeah. It's odd that the Govt. allows a tax exempt status to those 
mega-institutions who pay for that art but not to the creators of the 
art.

Reganomocs + Bushinomics = screw the artist, save the institution.