At 02:32 AM 6/6/2000 +0100, you wrote:
>Basically what I am asking is whether anyone has bailed and regretted it /
>or indeed never looked back.
Hi Gareth,
Yes, many have bailed and, while I haven't been keeping an exact count,
many have regretted it, it seems to me. I'm sure just as many also have
not looked back.
I think that for snaps and convenience, the digital camera is really the
thing. For me committing to film will always call for more "high
seriousness." I find it good to have an analog record, a more tangible
thing than a 24MB tif file. I find myself to be wise in hindsight when I
have a couple brackets that prove I got the most of the circumstances and
the medium.
Selling separately will be more work for you but you'll probably get more
dough that way. A buyer picking up a single package needs to be able to
realize some kind of profit when breaking it up to sell what he doesn't
want to keep. He's going to be doing what you decided not to do in effect.
Good luck in your decision. If I were twenty years younger, I might be
inclined to pack it all up and go digital. I'm not anti-digital by a long
shot. Analog is just my source of preference for the digital stream. And
with what I hope are glimmers of wisdom come the fetishes of middle age: I
like the beautiful boxes that film comes in and loading up a camera. :-)
Joel Wilcox
Iowa City, Iowa USA
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