Why are digital plans as expensive as film plans?
The cost to acquire, repair, and replace digital equipment – including cameras, compact flashes, computers, scanners, printers, external hard drives, hardware, and software, etc., adds significantly to the production and post production cost of wedding photography. With film, one needs a good photographer, film cameras, film, a good lab, and a single place to store film after all prints have been made. On the other hand, the digital photographer needs to have computer skills equal to his/her photographic skills, or work with someone who does. Post production work on digital files adds many hours to the work flow cycle and in effect, the photographer is now responsible for skills formerly performed by the lab. Rather than just filing a single set of negatives, digital images are stored on two or three hard drives and a couple of CDs and DVDs, whose projected life expectancy exceeds the number of years the medium has been around. Unlike film based technology, where the equipment performs
