I shot an event today for the National Network for Domestic Violence, and had to share the time with another photographer, she of course was shooting digital. She was very friendly and it all worked out well to shoot together, but a first for me. As I get a few more jobs along the way, I realize the benefits of digital, of course, and she even mentioned its practical and its what is in demand, and of course, with digital, you get more jobs. All good points, and not too much new, but it got me thinking.
So I wandered to Penn, returned my rental Turbo battery, and browsed, priced, chatted about digital. I'm still looking at a $4,ooo investment at least, including lenses, new flashes, cards, etc. to get near the quality of an F100, SB-28, and roll of Portra. I don't have that kind of capital right now of course. Not to mention all the other issues with digital such as battery life, CCD cleanliness, etc., etc. So I'm ok for now. But I may rent one for a job in the near future and see how it goes.
In other news, I'm finally getting the photos from my Germany and Prague trip worked on, so they should be online soon, along with more work on the Coal Breaker Project.
Tomorrow night, I plan to check out the WVSA opening mentioned in the previous post, and then Friday to Bethesda for the art walk, perhaps. Saturday I may be attending the Fraser Gallery's "Artist Boot Camp." Hopefully will see some of you around (if any of you actually read this. )
2 comments:
Depending on what the job wants, you may not need to match the quality of your film camera. Either way, however, I think $4,000 is too high of an estimate. I think you can do it cheaper.
robert, i love ya, but if matt is not at all digital now, 4K is the absolute lowest he's looking at to go digital. yeah, you may not need great quality for a lot of jobs, but do you really want to be limited by your gear? that's not to say you need the absolute most expensive of everything, but memory cards alone for me has cost over $1500. and then you need a computer that can keep up with all those files. and storage for the files. etc............ the list goes on. that's not counting the digital body, which is at least 1K and upwards of 2-4K depending on what you're going for. i'm not gonna tell you what the total cost of switching to digital was for me because i want to forget :)
having said that, i loooove digital for weddings. i could go back to film if i had to, but i would have to be desperate! i still shoot film for fine art work, but i have the time i'd like to spend with each individual image, where weddings are too high quantity for me to do that.
send me a note or call me if you want to discuss. it was good seeing you at the boot camp, btw!
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