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>>135895 Okay, low estimate: $2/roll for the film, $6/roll for developing, for 36-shot rolls. That's about the cheapest you're gonna find it. Good film is more than two bucks a roll, and developing is usually more like $9. So, $8/36 shots or $.22/shot.
You can get a low-end digital SLR for about $500 nowadays. But let's go with your higher $700 estimate.
So the break even point, if you're using the absolute cheapest possible film and find someone who'll develop it really cheaply, is 3182 pictures. I've taken about 2000 so far in 2008 with my digital SLR.
Oh, and that break-even point doesn't take into account that you still have to buy a film SLR. And if you want to have digital copies of the pictures, you're going to either have to buy a film scanner (say about $75 for a cheap one) or get a photo CD with each development job (which is like $3 most places, I think, for really shitty low-res scans).
The reason digital SLRs cost so much more is because it costs a lot more to make a digital SLR. Notably, the LCD, the image processor, and (especially) the sensor are really expensive components.
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