digital is not that inexpensive shot for shot if you consider the entire expenses: camera, computer, software and printing; easily$3/shot and constantly updating it all.
Are there adapters to/from the Samsung mounting system?I'm about $1500 into orphan body and lenses
Are there adapters to/from the Samsung mounting system?
As a matter of coincidence, my wife had a movie (the Holiday) on the television today which has a lot of music in the soundtrack. As the credits rolled by, I noticed a listing for musical soloists:This is exactly what popped into my mind as well. No complaints here. Not familiar with Dinah Washington.
If I could afford Leica's recent digital Ms I'd own a few, but my Samsung 22mp mirrorless serves amazingly except in blasting light..and it's bulky compared to the MEs. Unfortunately for me, Samsung is evidently bailing out of the camera biz. I'm about $1500 into orphan body and lenses.
My Samsung will probably serve a long time, beating most of the flapping mirror digitals in visual terms. If it fails I'll probably pick up another from KEH. But it's plastic so may last forever. I'm a photographer, not a cost account. If I was a cost accountant I'd still be shooting Nikon Ftn, sneering at Pentax like true Nikon shooters have always done.
go to the stores in my neighborhood and you'll see what's dead or laughed out the store if you ask for film!
Let's put things back into proper perspective by examining the bar chart here:
https://www.spin.com/2014/05/did-vinyl-really-die-in-the-90s-death-resurgence-sales/
There's at least one Canadian and one German company making new presses. That's the best evidence that vinyl is "back".
When I go to my stores the staff is very glad to sell film to me. Because their digital camera sales have collapsed in the last years. They stock all film in 135 and 120. Professional film is cold stored in a refrigerator. Sheet film can be odererd by them.
And they see more photographers coming back to film, and new, young photographers beginning with film. They have increased their film supply in the last years.
My local lab made about 10% of its busines with film five years ago. Now film is about 45% of their business.
The latest round of top tier mirrorless camera introductions is only the beginning. $5000 is the price of entry if a pro or "serious amateur" wants the best (like those that once bought Hasselblad)...and that old kit was obviously inferior image-wise to recent 5d2 which was grotesquely larger than the new and superior mirrorless. That's only down-valuation of around $20k over a decade, which is a lot less than the valuation of an old Toyota Prius over that time frame, and Prius isn't even cost efficient, fun, or ego-boosting (tho is as good fuel-wise as the latest).
Which is all to say the ever-increasing cost of digital camera ownership is mostly a concern to people on the margins of financial comfort (like me, sometimes). And I've just convinced myself that HP5, unlike HP4, is a marriage from hell with 1+100 stand processed Rodinal.
The struggles Cinestill appears to suffer may portend something more worrisome about other film ideas.
Please don't forget that this is only up to 2014. Since then in several major markets vinyl sales have increased by another 60-80%.
Sales have been up, but not 60-80%.Please don't forget that this is only up to 2014. Since then in several major markets vinyl sales have increased by another 60-80%.
Let't not forget Fountain Pens. They too are making a huge comeback.
Yes, if I buy one, that will represent a whopping year-on-year increase
The least expensive Montblanc Meisterstuck fountain pen is $530; the most expensive is $10,300. One would hope for a smooth writing experience.A Montblanc Meisterstuck fountain pen and a pad or Rhodia paper might be the smoothest writing experience you've ever had.
A Montblanc Meisterstuck fountain pen and a pad or Rhodia paper might be the smoothest writing experience you've ever had.
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