I used to shoot about half a dozen rolls of film a week. The amount I've saved on film and processing since buying my first DSLR has paid for it five times over. However, even with film, I was doing my own printing. If you're going to get serious about photography, you have to maintain a level of control. Or you have to be wealthy enough to engage the services of top shelf printers. Paul On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:40 PM, Glen Tortorella wrote:
> Good commentary, Godfrey. Have you read Rebekah's remarks? I tend > to think that this is just another financial black hole. On the > surface, I think: great! I can just get a good deal on a DSLR, buy a > rreasonably-priced printer, hook it up to my IMac, and make as many > prints as I wish, but then there are those "hidden" costs...ink, > paper, software, and who knows what else... > > Perhaps this is why I have tried to remain ignorant of the DSLR world. > > Thanks, > Glen > > On Sep 25, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >> Glen Tortorella wrote: >>> While I have been resistant to digital for quite some time, I find >>> this article interesting. The idea of getting a good "budget" DSLR >>> has crossed my mind, but I know so little about working within the >>> DSLR format that I cannot get motivated to buy one. I tend to like >>> prints. Thus, I ask the supremely elementary question: how does one >>> turn the zeros and ones stored in the DSLR's memory into prints? >>> Would a computer and/or scanner be necessary (I do not have a >>> scanner, but I do have an iMac), or can a camera shop or photo lab >>> supply the means to do this if one does not have a scanner? >> >> You're asking these questions as if you knew nothing at all, which I >> suspect isn't quite true. >> >> - No scanner is used when you're using a digital camera. Scanners are >> used to capture film and print images into digital images. A digital >> camera produces digital images. >> >> - You print a digital camera's photos the same way you print anything >> else: to a printer connected to either camera or computer, to an >> online print service having moved the image files from camera to >> computer, or by using a printer kiosk at a local store. >> >> - If you have an iMac, you connect the camera to the computer with >> its supplied cable. By default, iPhoto (supplied on every Apple >> system by default) will start up and download all the photographs so >> you can sort, show, and print them, to either a connected printer via >> a print service on the internet. >> >>> And, finally, how does the K100D compare to the Nikon...the D40 or >>> D50, I gather? >> >> A matter of opinion. They all work well at the level of questions you >> are posing. If you already have Pentax lenses, it makes sense to buy >> a Pentax DSLR: it will save you money. If you don't have Pentax >> lenses, pick whichever one feels best in your hands and enjoy it ... >> they all work better than the majority of owners can exploit. >> >> Godfrey >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
