Don,
If you only shoot 10 rolls a year it is probably not worth it for you to go
into the SLR, go and play with a C5060 or for a few hundred more the C8080.
You will be very surprised at the quality if images that these are capable
of. Use them for a year or so then transition to the SLR if you want to
spend the money.
I was shooting 20-30 rolls a month until digital. I have not gotten rid of
film, but digital works for some of my low res stuff like web work. I used
to shoot 3-10 rolls(108-360 images) at various events, then processing and
scanning of the images that we wanted to use. Now I shoot those all digital.
I shoot 1500-2000 images and they all fit on one Microdrive. I use the
cameras in single shot mode for the stills and continuous mode for the
action. Then just throw away the shots I don't like. I get quite a few more
great action shots than I ever did. The slow 1.7 fps of the digitals is
great, the big Metz flashes can keep up at that pace for a dozen or more
frames.
The ability to do second curtain flash sync has allowed some shots that we
could not easily get before.
I have not gone E-1 yet. I have an E10, C720UZ and C5050. Each has it's use.
Once the 11-22/2.8 comes out I will consider the E-1.
For any large images I still use my OM4Ti and the Zuikos. I like printing
30x40s for my walls and digital is not up to that yet.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald Shedrick" <shedridc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 5:17 PM
Subject: [OM] Why go digital??
> I'm not about to jump fully into digital yet, but I was doing some
> thinking along these lines:
> I figure my cost per slide for film and processing is about 30 cents
> each.
> If I drop $2500 on a new minimal digital SLR and a few lenses (it
> could easily run alot more than this), it would take 8333 frames or
> 231 rolls of film to save the cost of the digital equipment, not
> including memory cards, more software, storage, etc. If I shoot 10
> rolls a year, that is 23 years!
> Now I know alot of you shoot more than this, and I do also if I go on
> a really special trip, but my point is for me there has to be another
> reason for going digital.
> Instant gratification of images immediately viewable and downloadable
> is the next most obvious reason, but I am a patient sort and I can
> wait for my slides without going nuts. Besides, there is something
> very satisfying about holding a slide, and nothing digital comes
> close to the vividness of a projected slide. And I do not have to
> spend hours at the computer to process each frame, and I know they
> will always be there in the future in spite of the inevitable
> computer format changes to come.
> I can do anything I need to with my scanned images of slides or
> negatives, so that is not a compelling reason.
> I use an inexpensive 2MP point and shoot digital for quick
> spontaneous snapshots, etc and I love it for that. But I still use
> print film in my Oly stylus for trips (in addition to slides in my
> OM-1n) mainly because I find it so much easier to get all the prints
> back without any computer work.
> So.....help me out.....why is there so much excitement about digital?
>
>
> =====
> Don Shedrick
>
> http://groups.msn.com/firstlightimaging
>
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