IN SEARCH OF: The "real" cost of digital imaging. I wonder who, besides me, has owned (and discarded or given away) more than 4 printers in the past three years? Owned and discarded more than 3 scanners? How much have you spent on "AA" batteries for those dratted, battery chewing digitals? My own fleeting experiences with "free" digital is that the costs ~never~ stop, more so than with prints/slides.
And don't forget, whatever other comparisons anyone cares to make between digital cameras and film, (and excepting the few interchangeable lens "Pro" level SLRs), digitals won't take the images anyone can get using an LX or Leica camera. Me? I'm waiting for the under $2,000 digital that can give us a 300mm, fisheye or true "macro" shot like any SLR PENTAX ever made can. Until then, and again excluding "Pro" level, 35mm interchangeable lens SLRs and medium/4x5 format, small format digitals are only fit for kids, eBay and email. Mafud [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] *I'll be dutiablly impressed with small format digital when they, as a genre, can make head and shoulders flash portraits*f* that don't blow out the highlights. *.*Don't let get me started on the absolutely dismal performance of under $1,000 digital machines with their puny built-in flashes! - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
