grober Posted May 10, 2007 Share #1 Posted May 10, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Oh, the camera's all right I suppose but it's all these other bleedin' costs that annoy me: I just paid $134 +$30 to have a Geek install more memory on my computer. The digital lab I selected dryly informed me that I couldn't begin to handle their required software for composing and ordering unless I had at least 1 Gb of RAM on my computer. So now, after a trip to Best Buy, I do. Enough already of these hidden costs! -g Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest guy_mancuso Posted May 10, 2007 Share #2 Posted May 10, 2007 You entered the twilght zone when it comes to digital. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted May 10, 2007 Share #3 Posted May 10, 2007 More like a black hole - it sucks all matter into another dimension....Especially dollars. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jager Posted May 10, 2007 Share #4 Posted May 10, 2007 LOL! And this forum doesn't help! I just dropped another $300 for the Leica table top tripod and ball head, after Carsten's thread last week. (Take-your-breath-away cost aside, it's a terrific portable tripod, too - thanks Carsten!). A few days before that I dropped $500 on the CV 15, finder, and screwmount adapter (Stephen Gandy just got some more in, after they were on backorder for awhile). Black hole indeed! The upside, of course, is that I'm enjoying photography more than I ever have before... that's the real driver behind all this. The M8 rocks! Jeff Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicabug Posted May 11, 2007 Share #5 Posted May 11, 2007 Computer, memory, and software upgrades are probably the least of your cost. Rangefinder lenses and accessaries are the ones doing major damage to your pocketbook. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmb_ Posted May 11, 2007 Share #6 Posted May 11, 2007 $134 for more memory, it doesn't sound like you bought enough! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill W Posted May 11, 2007 Share #7 Posted May 11, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Wow, After the M8 I I sold the old 28 and 50 in order to buy the asph versions, bought the 75, bought the 24, I ordered the Noctilux as my 30% off lense, Leica half case, decided to buy the Luigi case, sold my 12 inch G4 laptop to buy a new 13 inch one, Lightroom, New Leica case, I need other filters, etc, etc, etc, This is looking like Guy's list!!!!!!! I think the M8 is responsible for the next spike in the CPI. Actually I am enjoying photography again like I never thought I would. I truly loved the M camera for many years but digital pulled me away. I always kept my M7 and a bunch of lens but I just did not use them. Now I do and the old Nikon digital stuff just sits there!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even Guy said that the M8 had rejuvenated his spirit and he truly makes a living with a camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted May 11, 2007 Share #8 Posted May 11, 2007 Jeff and Bill i think both of you just said a mouthfull . Damn the torpedoes, if your out there enjoying photography with it than it's all good and if we have to give up a few steak diners than we will just eat chicken. LOL All kidding aside i am enjoy the hell out of this, it's fun again for me i just got hired to shoot the City of New York for 4 days for one of my big clients and there shows. I'm stoked that the M8 will be the tool to do it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted May 11, 2007 Share #9 Posted May 11, 2007 It's amazing how these cameras can be so addicting......but it definitly makes photography more fun!It can be easy to forget how much you are spending! Guy- when in NY,let me know if you need any help! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertwright Posted May 11, 2007 Share #10 Posted May 11, 2007 ...yeah you are going to need a good assistant to carry the bag with all those lenses! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthury Posted May 11, 2007 Share #11 Posted May 11, 2007 As a digital photographer, it pays to be somewhat handy with computers: both the hardware and software side of things. It does not take a brain surgeon to install memory cards , although some brain surgeons I know of can do it as well. It's a matter of switching off the computer, unplug it totally, pulling one memory card out and finding which one you have and get more. Really no biggy at all. These days, everything is so modular, I assure you that a high schooler can do it. If that's hard, then I think you may have bigger problems with Photoshop and layers management. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted May 11, 2007 Share #12 Posted May 11, 2007 Sounds to me like the hidden cost was due to buying an underpowered computer in the first place - but I've been there myself. THIS time, when I got the iMac, I maxed out the memory at purchase. At first it seemed sort of a waste, since I had to pull a perfectly good 1Gig memory card out to add the 2Gig card. But then I realized I could upgrade my wife's machine for 'free' using my leftovers. 20 years ago I gave my Mac Plus a whopping 1 MEGAbyte memory increase - cost $400 installed. So let's see, if the 1 Megabyte of memory was $250 alone, and I had wanted to add 1000 times as much (a Gigabyte) back then....!!?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted May 11, 2007 Share #13 Posted May 11, 2007 Some things to remember also . Adobe CS2 or 3 is Ram hungry. It heavily leans on Ram more than processor speed. Macs when using PS will look for more ram after the allotment is filled doing any heavy load , PC will look at the hard drive for more power. C1 for raw processing leans more heavily on processing speed than Ram. So you really need a good balance . I've been doing digital a long time and one thing is for sure you can never have enough ram. Any Mac laptop you buy get 2gbs or PC laptop get 2gbs. The system takes a a very large chunk of the ram just to run the OS. Big desktop units I recommend 4gbs on a Mac PS will take 3 gbs of ramm speed in PS and on a PC it will take 2gbs. This may have changed a little with CS3 not sure so you want to cover at least that much Ram for PS than more for the OS. Now i am a heavy user so on my Mac Pro desktop I went with 6gbs of Ram and extremely fast Raid O 10 k hard drives. But i am a extreme case so most folks won't have to get this kind of horsepower but i highly recommend a lot of Ram and you get get it with your purchase or after purchase and ram these days is not to bad with price but i think the most important factor on a computer of course get at least a 7200 rpm hard drive also with a 16mg cache. Ram is easy to instal on most machines and can easily be done by the user . Just look in the manual of your computer every manual has a section on installing ram Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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