Hi Bob, While I shoot more with digi, storage space is actually reduced substantially per frame. For example, a single 16-bit scan of a B&W frame is, iirc, about 45K, for color it's about 150K. I'm using round figures, of course. Using the DS, that same frame is only about 5-6K when converted to DNG, or about 10K with a full PEF (Pentax RAW) file, and that's color. Doing the math, I can get 25X or more space saving than with film. YMMV, but I can shoot 25 frames in digi for every one frame with film and end up using about the same storage space.
Now, here's another hidden space saver: When processing a RAW file, I can make numerous changes to the image - color balance, contrast, hue, saturation, and so on, all without increasing the file size, and all with being able to save the original file as well as the changes using the Photoshop raw converter. I suspect other raw converters allow this as well. However, when working with film, and making universal changes to an image using layers, that 145K file can grow to as large as 300K. Now I have a file that's using about 50X more storage space than the raw file from the camera. In another message I noted that the price of one of my favorite SD cards is now below $25.00 for a GB of storage. With the Pentax that's about 93 frames. So, for the price of processing about three rolls of film, I can shoot more than three rolls worth on a single card, clear the card, and start all over again. The card has paid for itself and then some having used it to capacity just once. Storage and cost are no longer an issue YMMV Shel > [Original Message] > From: Bob W > One thing I have noticed is that I have been shooting around the > subject more with digital than I did with film. I don't think I'm > shooting more subjects than I did with film, but when I've picked the > subject I am tending to shoot more frames because, at least > psychologically, it feels as though I can be more profligate with the > frames. If I continue this way though I will have to spend an awful > lot of money on additional storage. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
