the other night I went to the rialto theater in raleigh (one of "those" theaters that show the rocky horror picture show every friday 
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it was fun. they showed "kansas city bomber" to support the local carolina roller derby girls team. They had rocky horror picture show style reenactors at the bottom of the theaters doing silly skits.
unfortunately i did not have film loaded when I was busily snapping away.
well here are some of the pictures. AFTER i realized i had no film loaded.
(NCSG list pics)
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it was fun. they showed "kansas city bomber" to support the local carolina roller derby girls team. They had rocky horror picture show style reenactors at the bottom of the theaters doing silly skits.
unfortunately i did not have film loaded when I was busily snapping away.
well here are some of the pictures. AFTER i realized i had no film loaded.
(NCSG list pics)
The math was pretty easy for me. I shoot mainly high-ISO stuff (1600 or higher), so realistically here's what I'm looking at:
10,000 shots since November: 277 rolls of 36 shot Fuji Sensia 1600 plus neg-only developing: $8 per roll = $2,222.
Good negative scanner = $500.
Total: about $2,700
I'd rather spend the $1,900 I've saved on lenses.
What's your interest in the Kodak DCS series? Full frame is nice if you shoot wideangle stuff primarily, but the ISO range is so limited there's literally no way I could use it for what I do. A more realistic choice for me would be the 1D MKII.
I spend about 1.45 to develop the negatives. And some more for the roll. I pay a little extra but I like the photo lab alot. The girls there are really nice and polite and and know their work good.
I am also sticking to 35 mm for the time being because I like the resolution. I can blow up the photos really large. The canoscan can do 4000 dpi. I can do a pretty large prints at 300dpi with that scanner.
so it is alot cheaper for me. I payed nothing for my camera and only a 45 bucks for each of my lenses. I do want a digital camera setup but I am waiting for the prices to go down on the latest canon/nikon digtial slrs, hopefully in the 14megapix range. I am probably looking at 5k for the total package (base camera, 3 lenses, card, maybe a card reader)
but first i need a job
I did get a canon a80 with a 256mb card and accessory case and nicad charger for kara's birthday last May. That cost me about 400 bucks total. She was asking for one for a while.
her photoset was done with that camera.
I am currently working on getting my lights and reflectors.