Digi is great for sure! I finally took the plunge earlier this year. Replaced the Canon EOS 3 with an EOS 20D body for £800 and got 2x 2GB cards and a 20GB hard drive with 3.5inch preview screen all for just over £200. Threw another £250 at 4x batteries and a battery grip so total layout was £1250. 20D is 8 megapixel and 5fps. Now discontinued but replacement 30D slightly better specced.
Canon 35-350 lens and Canon flash from old body still work
I took 2500 shots at Sebring, 2000 at testing and 1500 during race week. Local photo shop used to charge £2 a film for processing and then £5 to scan 8 films to a CD (which was a mega cheap and time efficient way of doing things!). Either way, that's well over a hundred 36exp films there, so that's at least £325 I haven't had to pay out already!
With 2x Tour De France stages (1 is a time trial which means LOADS of shots!) and the Classic next week, then Spa, Donington and the Vuelta a Espana time trial later this year, I won't be far off having recovered the cost of all the new kit by the end of the season!!!
BUT THE BEST BIT OF ALL ABOUT DIGITAL in my mind is that you can review what you've taken on the spot; so if a prefocussed point is proving to be not quite spot on, you can do something about it! Or even expreriment with shutter speeds etc. and see which works best, all whilst there! Quality now is just as good for me (if not better ... no grainy scans!!!) so for anyone considering whether they should or not, don't consider it any more ... JFDI!
I LOVE DIGITAL!!
Just my two (euro)cents worth!
