[pct-l] Digital Cameras

[radpin at gmail.com (Eric)]

My $0.02:

I carry a 35mm. I don't take a lot of pictures, so I figure 15 rolls
should be plenty.

Cost of a roll of film on sale in bulk = $3.00 (x15 = $45)
Cost of developing glossies and getting "kodak" digital images on cd =
$7.00 (x15 = $105)

Tack on some postage, and pay for some batteries for the flash, and I
figure it'll cost me about $200 to take a decent amount of photos
(360, if they all come out, so probably more like 300, or one and a
half pictures per day or so).

I have a digital, but I like having "real" glossy photo albums, and a
choice of film speed / black and white. To each their own, but this
works out pretty good for me. And if it doesn't, I'll just ask to get
my digital sent out. I think I'd need to buy a bigger memory card for
it though.

Eric




On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:45:19 EDT, bighummel@aol.com <bighummel@aol.com> wrote:
> I have been experimenting with a 3 meg digital Minolta and found the
> following problem.  I find an action shot approaching, wildlife, someone going over a
> waterfall, etc. and I quickly pick up the camera and aim and press the button
> and . . . the camera thinks for a split second on the focus and lighting and
> . . . then finally takes the image.   By then, of course, the action is long
> over and I have missed it.
> 
> With my 35 mm film cameras I tend to try to keep them set to the lighting of
> the moment and thus must only focus manually in order to collect this instant
> in time, and when I push the shutter button that is the moment that I record,
> not some moment in some portion of a second later.
> 
> Maybe I need to try a better digital camera?
> 
> Us amateur photographers need to stick together so we can become dangerous
> amateur photographers.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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