JD750 Loc: SoCal

Best answer.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

Still best answer.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

STILL ... best answer. ;)

JD750 Loc: SoCal

That's a pretty good keeper rate maybe the cold helped somehow, you were cold so you only moved your shutter finger for the better shots. LOL.

CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Maybe some other things too?

1. One lens and camera and fresh battery.
2. A zoom long enough for the distance to participants.
3. Selective focus regularly moved to positions left and right off the center.
4. Back button focus with AI Servo, tracking people and shooting in bursts.
5. Manual exposure with adjustments only when the sun came out for just a few moments.
6. Only shooting the forward facing (to the camera) of participants waiting to run to the water or return from the water.
7. A fast shutter speed to 'freeze' water droplets.
8. Exposing to the right in the meter.
9. Working to the closest shooting position as people shuffled in and out of the crowd as their friends / family finished their plunge.
10. Shooting at a zoom close to the eventual close(r) crop of the resulting images, aka focusing / zoomed on people's faces.
11. Panning with subjects in BBF and releasing shutter at their closest point of passing.
12. Shooting in RAW.
13. Aggressively culling results.
14. No image review during event, just once or twice looking at highlight alerts when the sun burst out.

BlackRipleyDog

Since 1971? Shoe boxes of processed film prints and negatives. 6 metal boxes of kodachrome and extachrome slides. Digital output since 2006 with 8 cameras. I don't know but it does boggle the mind.

mikeglaw

I never counted, but my drive has about 33 gb of photo's and I am an amature who photographs landscape, fmaily, and vacations. Of course lots of grand kids photo's!

frangeo Loc: Texas

I would really like to know myself. The only gage I can use is that I wore out 4 digital cameras in 7-8 years. I had blisters on my hands from holding the camera so much. Some of my CF cards are so worn the paint is all gone and I no longer know the make of the card. I also wore out a Hasselblad in my film days.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

33 GB? That's all? Some here have told of multiple TB of storage.  

Wallen Loc: Middle Earth

Actual amount, no idea. Not even for a good estimate.

I mainly shoot for others but personally, I shot film very judiciously and have less than 500 printed film photos. Digital photography change that but I still avoid "shoot n pray" so at the moment, probably less than 40,000 on the DSLR's and about half as much on the celphones.

All in all, a very rough estimate, my personal shoot, maybe around 60k's (probably much less)of stills.

On the other hand, Work is another matter. There are times we take hundreds of shots per day (as well as some days of zero photography) so 30-40k a year is plausible.
I have also shot a lot of videos. Video is normally 24 frames a second or 86,400 stills an hour.

ELNikkor

My son asked me this very question 2 nights ago. I'm a conservative shooter, missed many in the film days just by taking a second to wonder if the click was worth the cost. Started shooting film in the '60's, digital in 2006. Almost never "spray and pray", 99% of the time on "Single Frame", medium res .JPG. Right now, 1.5 TB digital = ?, Bins of negs, prints, & slides in the basement waiting to be digitized. A guess would be around 200K...

Shutterbugger2 Loc: Chicago

I calculated that, so far, I have made 25,200 large format (4 X 5 and 8 X 10) film photos. I have taken an estimated 15,000 digital photos.
~Bob~

Leland22 Loc: Texas

More than enough to make me a better photographer especially composition, lighting and backgrounds.