Brian Swale wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I suppose I am what some people call A R.
>
I think we knew that already. But we love you anyway. :-)
>This is what I came up with, using my SUV which is a Toyota Starlet, for
>transport, and the current PVI charges for the rest.
>Values in NZ dollars (compare using http://www.xe.com/ucc/ )
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>
>
> 36.02718504 x $0.1627712270223 = $ 5.864 per round trip
>
>
You need to live closer to your processor, or print your own.
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>Cost per digital CDROM of 192 images.
>One trip of $ 5.864189115119 plus
>E-box transfer from card to CDROM $15 ( not using home computer )
>
>
Because you don't have a CD burner?
>Supply of blank CD $ 2.70
>
>
WHAT? Decent blank CDs around here are well under half a US$. Even the
best made are cheaper than that.
>192 prints; 5x7.5 inches
>each $3.00 $576
>
>
As the Schnozz said, prints from digital files should cost about the
same as film prints.
>Interesting. At that rate I will undoubtedly be very selective in what I print
>from digital.
>On the other hand, many of the film prints are not keepers.
>
>
Exactly! How many gazillion useless prints are made in film process and
print everything mode?
Go digital, print only the ones worth a print and save the planet!
Seriously, even with film, I stopped buying the one print of all frames
long ago. Saves a lot of money. Makes bracketing much cheaper and more
practical. I used to pay for scans from the processor, but they weren't
consistent enough to be really useful. With my own scanner, I do my own
scanning and only the ones worth a print get printed and the ones not
even worth saving on disk get thrown away at no cost.
Doing the analysis your way, leaving out your labor and amortization of
equipment costs, digital is way cheaper for me than film is. But I'm not
going to do a full analysis 'cause that's part of what retirement is
about for me.
Moose
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