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20,000 frames

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2010.09.16

Rolled my (DSLR) camera over the frame counter again, which means I've now taken more than 20,000 photos on it.

It's taken me quite a while to grow to like the digital SLR, and I think it's only because I've now got the software to make the photos the way I want them. On the other hand, using a digital SLR has helped enormously in two respects.

1. I've learned a lot about exposure and flash photography that I wouldn't have learned with my film cameras at anything like the same speed and accuracy.

2. I've saved a LOT of money. All in, I figure I've spent $1500 on my entire kit including data cards and batteries. And yet, with 20,000 frames shot, that's 555 rolls of film that I would have shot. And at roughly $10 a roll for film and development, at 555 rolls I would have spent $5550. In other words, I've saved some $4000 by "going digital". That's over the course of four years.

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