Just for fun --- how many photos taken in your ifetime (Page 4): About 50,000 digital and a large box of slides...

sourdough58 Loc: Maine

About 50,000 digital and a large box of slides

coolhanduke Loc: Redondo Beach, CA

Good question.
Owning a photo lab for almost 20 years, I thought nothing of taking 20-30 or more rolls of film with me on the many trips I took.
Went digital with the D3, and always had 2 of whatever camera I owned.
Hard to say but in the millions for sure.

AndyT Loc: Hampstead, New Hampshire

Excellent question. 32 yrs as a pro wedding photographer. Earlier film days were medium format so only 12 shots on a roll. Shifting into digital for a number of years with several cameras going. Then I never really kept a tally of which years were the busiest and which weren't. Another 13 yrs after getting out of "combat photography" just shooting for myself. 500,000 shots maybe? Too many for fit in an album. Enjoy it today as much as the first photograph.

rts2568

I've just been laughing with the joy of taking photos for the past sixty-two years since I became hooked at Age eight.
The more I laugh the longer my Nikon D810/850/Df/D200 will live on.
How many photos? - Ha Ha!

Ron Ha Ha....!

gwilliams6

Easily multiple millions of shots, both as an amateur and over 47 + years as a professional photojournalist around the world shooting all subjects.

Cheers

sgt hop Loc: baltimore md,now in salisbury md

i have no idea...i'm 86 now and have been clicking the shutter since about 12 yrs old....and am still at it....

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

Longshadow wrote:

A bunch!

X2.

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

Only God knows since I have been photographing for more than 60 years.

Ednsb Loc: Santa Barbara

Taken or kept? In shooting over 55 years well over 500k but was pro sports photographer for over 10 years of that sometimes shooting multiple events over a weekend. Kept? About 200k

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

Sidwalkastronomy wrote:

In the old film days if you got a few keepers on a 36 roll you did well

Exactly. I was happy if I got 5 good ones out of 36, and I would just throw out the rest. Didn’t want my Kodak carousels cluttered up with junk.

Real Nikon Lover Loc: Simi Valley, CA

Way too many to count. As others have said, film use was more judicious. I am going through photos now eliminating duplicates. On just one back up drive (of 8) there are 130,000 photos. I have dozens of CDs and DVDs that aren't loaded on any drives. I am sure the number is around 500,000 since 1995. Add film 505,000.

photoman43

lrm wrote:

I am not a professional, but avid prosumer. I estimate that I have taken 200,000 to 250,000 photos. Most of these are digital. With film I was much more judicious. In film days, a one week trip would produce 300 or so photos. With digital the same trip would produce 3,000 photos (with the vast majority being trashed). A pro friend estimates 1.5 million. How about you?

This is a hard number for me to determine. Since I went digital my images retained require about 14TB of hard drive capacity. These are mostly Nikon RAW images. I usually delete over 50% of images taken.

I just sold my Nikon D810 and its shutter count was about 120,000. I have no idea how many images I took on previous Nikon digital bodies: D200, D 300, D800 or my current bodies, a D500 and D 850.

My 35mm slides retained (nature, landscape and birds) , taken from 1950 until I went digital filled about 8 boxes, each box about 24 in x 14in x 14in. I have thrown thousands of these away in the last few years.

And then there are my family pictures--slides and prints, that are in other boxes that fill the top shelf of a closet.

joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

lrm wrote:

I am not a professional, but avid prosumer. I estimate that I have taken 200,000 to 250,000 photos. Most of these are digital. With film I was much more judicious. In film days, a one week trip would produce 300 or so photos. With digital the same trip would produce 3,000 photos (with the vast majority being trashed). A pro friend estimates 1.5 million. How about you?

I don't know for sure. Shot film on and off from 1967 to 2003 when I got my first digital camera. Over the years I have lost images through mishaps and failure to back up. Presently there are 133,087 images on my image drive...27,828 are bird images, all but several hundred are fully processed.

I keep roughly about 20% of digital images captured.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Fredrick wrote:

Exactly. I was happy if I got 5 good ones out of 36, and I would just throw out the rest. Didn’t want my Kodak carousels cluttered up with junk.

My film keeper rate has gone up. Unless I misfire a frame of my foot, I'm getting into the 36 of 36 keeper rate. Maybe only 30 are worth sharing, but images that simply "don't work" are relatively few. I'm convinced unlimited digital practice makes (can make) for a better overall photographer. You can test your lenses, you can test your apertures, you can test your focal point position; you really can develop ingrained best practices / personal preferences that apply whenever you pick-up a camera as your 2nd nature way thinking. It probably helps too that I've dumped all my manual focus bodies and only shoot AF on film. Even my non-keepers are in focus, except maybe my foot.

bwana Loc: Bergen, Alberta, Canada

lrm wrote:

I am not a professional, but avid prosumer. I estimate that I have taken 200,000 to 250,000 photos. Most of these are digital. With film I was much more judicious. In film days, a one week trip would produce 300 or so photos. With digital the same trip would produce 3,000 photos (with the vast majority being trashed). A pro friend estimates 1.5 million. How about you?

There is a significant difference between taken and retained. I have 76,937 retained on harddrives. To get there I've probably taken 5-10 times that number, so maybe 350,000-750,000 taken.

Checking the shutter counts on my current cameras shows I've recently taken about 150,000 AND this doesn't include any shot on the numerous cameras I no longer own.

So, since the mid-60's the number is large!

bwa