Kin Lau said:
Well
As for film and ROI, I was only shooting c41 film and easily have $500/year of film & developing costs, that's why I went to B&W, so as to cut that cost. Don't know what you mean by "monkey business", but as I pointed out. It's a different medium, just use what's best for you.... you do sound rather angry and upset ("castrated?!??!") I didn't mean to offend you and apologise if I did.
No reason to apologise, no fault on your side, what makes me sound upset is the issue itself, not your post.
"Castrated" = if I put a nice and expensive 2,8/24 on a DSLR it's a suddenly a 2,8/36 or even longer. That is a ridiculous restriction in my understanding, If you use the DSLR for teleshooting only the restriction may turn into an advantage because your 300 which is a 600 with an 2X extender gets a 900 mounted on a DSLR, saves a lot of money if you are a bird shooter .
But I am not shooting wildlife with tele and so there are no advantages for me at all, only deficits.
Monkey biz meant that asan amateur you hardly can get any ROI from saving film because the loss of the camera's worth eats it almost completely. If you intend to sell your 300d in 2007 , what money do you expect to get for it? More than $300 ? I dobt about it.
Even with $500 cost per year for film ( I spend 20% less) you need almost 2 years to get the difference payed = break even.
For me this would not play any role at all if I'd get something BETTER than film, technical better photographs I mean. But I get worse pics instead, worse from many reasons. What makes me upset is that the marketing lunatics in this market tell me I must buy it anyway because it is "the future" Maybe they mean it is THEIR future because they now can finally sell cameras with innovation circles of PCs ( this is an idiotic expectation) but it isn't mine anyway.
I am not anti-digital at all, work out my scans with PS too and keep that as progress but how camera manufacturers take the piss out of their customers is really impudent.
No offenense taken, no offense meant, I'm just getting started somemtimes on this annoying issue. Next time I include my whining in a "rant on-rant off".
Best,
Bertram