On 2 Oct 2005 at 13:04, Toralf Lund wrote: > I've never been able to believe that the cost is quite zero, though. Not > for the pictures you want to keep (whether you print them or not), > anyway. Storing & maintaining data on a digital medium costs something, > too - especially if you want any kind of security. > > Care to make a real estimate of your cost per picture? > > Another minor problem is that the cost of printing with in inkjet or > whatever is (as I understand it) actually higher than what you pay for > normal prints at a lab. But perhaps the cost of *good* prints comes out > as lower?
Not John but I'll put my 2c worth in as I am always amused when this type of discussion pops up. Good DVD-R media is now less than AU$1 per disc and even creating duplicate discs and storing the bloated *ist D RAW files the cost works out at less than AU$0.006 per image. Prints are less costly as I don't print anything myself and my print bureau (and most others) charge less to print (to photo paper) from a finished file than they do from film. Yes the initial fixed costs for equipment were higher than for a similar quality of film camera. However if you are willing to discount the purchase of a computer (which most of us have in any case and which by all rights isn't strictly necessary) and the camera is used to shoot regularly the savings in film purchase and processing can be significant and easily reconciled. For instance I've shot the equivalent of nearly 500 rolls of 36 exposure 35mm film since I purchased my DSLR. At the prices I was paying for film and processing prior to my DSLR purchase (Fuji Provia 400F 135-36 RHP AU$24.24 + DnD processing AU$8.80) I only had to shoot the equivalent of about 60 rolls of film and processing to break even. And before you ask would I have shot the equivalent of 500 rolls of film in the same time had I not gone digital, I'll say no, but solely due to financial constraints. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
