Just for fun --- how many photos taken in your ifetime (Page 5): Agreed. After working with digital now for the past 6 years, if I were to use a film camera today my keeper rate would...

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

CHG_CANON wrote:

My film keeper rate has gone up. Unless I misfire ... (show quote)

Agreed. After working with digital now for the past 6 years, if I were to use a film camera today my keeper rate would be up. However, because I was a judicious shooter back in the film days, I can’t break the habit of still shooting very little with digital. I know it makes no sense. I think I’ve only shot in continuous mode once, which was of a cliff diver in Mazatlan.

Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas

Gobs and gobs.

revhen Loc: By the beautiful Hudson

God knows but he ain't telling.

russraman Loc: New York City

Pre-Digital (1958-2000) = about 5,000
Post-Digital (2000 to present) = more than 650,000

bw79st Loc: New York City

Snapshots and family photos will prove to be the most valuable. In the long run no one will care about all the beautiful shots you took. They will eventually want to know who that is in the photo who looks like my sister, or my child or grandchild.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

CHG_CANON wrote:

My film keeper rate has gone up. Unless I misfire ... (show quote)

I have noticed this too. It used to be the “garbage sort” pass knocked off quite a few, now-days sometimes none. Maybe the occasional foot photo. But I’m not up to sharing 30/36 yet. This ratio applies to both digital and film. Maybe when I grow up …. I will keep working towards that goal.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

CHG_CANON wrote:

I keep only the best, whatever that percentage might be. My LRCAT has more than just digital still camera images, but still the vast majority are the final culling and final edits of DSLR and MILC work.

Thank you.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

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?

Several.
When traveling I estimated 1 36exp roll a day.
That still holds true, mostly, with digital.

Dave H2

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?

Don't know how many total but have several thousand slides from as far back as 1960. I have a slide show that runs on a photo display of digital images with about 10000 in the queue. I don't worry about good, average or poor since most of my photos are snapshots for memory purposes. Since storage is really cheap, I don't throw mediocre shots away.

sgt hop Loc: baltimore md,now in salisbury md

bw79st wrote:

Snapshots and family photos will prove to be the most valuable. In the long run no one will care about all the beautiful shots you took. They will eventually want to know who that is in the photo who looks like my sister, or my child or grandchild.

correct.......

SteveFranz Loc: Durham, NC

To paraphrase one of our esteemed past presidents - It depends on how you define photograph! If I'm taking pictures in Raw and also saving a JPG copy, does that count as one or two? If I'm doing HDR and taking 3 different exposures does that count as one or three - and if I'm saving Raw or JPG, that could increase the total from one to 6. Does a focus stacked picture count as one? Or more? Does a panorama count as one?

Hip Coyote

JD750 wrote:

I'm down to three times a day now.

Photos not sex. Get your mind's out of the gutter.

now that is funny

fivepercnt

Wow including film I would say I've taken approx 5000.

ronpier Loc: Poland Ohio

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 have 14,500 kept images since I went digital in 2005. Only God knows how many actuations during that time.

Ralanco19

Worthy of my editing time, or just per click? I do sports so lots and lots of Continuous and Burst modes … but only keep one from a burst? But the other 10 to 50 were still taken and culled through. So, where does my “count” begin/stop? Per edit-worthy save? Per every even unedited, but saved? Or every push of the button … blurs, under/over exposed included, poorly composed, reviewed but then deleted, every image of every Burst, all 5 of the HDR bracket but saved as a single image, etc., etc., etc.

Maybe a little more explanation of what “how many photos taken” actually means might benefit from just a smidge more definition?

But any way you slice it … count me in as 1000’s and 1000’s. And, like most everyone else’s, when I’m dead and gone, they’ll all die to. Consider. Who’s going to even know I have them saved in the cloud, or on disks, or on the PC …? … and even if they do know there are probably many, many, many images, how would they know where/how to find them, how they are filed, and how to get them since technologies change so fast. Most methods of saving will be soon obsoleted and unrecoverable anyway … even if someone did have the patience to waste a year of their life going through them all. Nope. Doesn’t matter how many I’ve taken (OR you’ve taken), When I/you die ( just being practical and honest) they’ll all just fade away with me/you. (I guess the old physical film/slide technologies with pictures being saved in an album or even a shoebox at least had some practical long-range advantage after all. Someone in the future might actually have had a chance to have found and seen all my/your artistic gems.)