… and if you shoot sports more rather than portraits, you may use a lot more burst-mode shooting, and therefore many more shots much more quickly. Understood.
I realize that this may come across as flippant, but I’m serious. Unless you are about to put your camera up for sale and need the count as part of the sale info, just keep using it until the shutter just dies of overwork and old age. I assure you … no matter the age of your camera, it still has a LOT of shutter life left. Probably will outlive both of us combined. … Anyway, good luck.
The mirrorless was just one of the innovations. The point is, ALL the other camera improvements (MUCH improved sensors, continuous shutter speeds per second, compact size/lightness, “evaluating exposure” pre-shooting rather than pre-test shots, improved processors, etc.) is where all the current engineering has been going. New engineering and improvements to all these OTHER camera elements both slowed than ceased altogether on DSLR’s. I’ll always keep loving my DSLR’s, but am envious of all the other improvements that keep being incorporated into each new iteration of mirrorless cameras. Mirror or no mirror was just the tip of the iceberg. ALL the other engineering now makes the mirrorless the king of the hill and DSLR’s more and more Model-T’s by comparison.
Not sure what you plan shooting. But if traveling with another person, plus dog, they won’t have fun if always waiting for you to get that National Geographic cover shot. Travel VERY light. A d7200 with one (ONE) flexible zoom lens, charger, SD case, is really all you need for 90% of any travel and vacation type shots. Ditch everything else, and enjoy the family, dog, and trip. Easily will fit your carry-on, and you won’t lose sleep worrying about it all. Annnnd … … enjoy the family and the trip. My old clunker D7000 with one (ONE) 24mm-200mm zoom, charger, SD cards, and, well, little else, has been around the world with me, with wife and in-laws in toe, and I get all the shots I need to get and still everyone enjoys everything we do TOGETHER. I don’t hold them up, and they have enough patience to let me get the travel log shots in. If your priority is picture taking, then bring all your extra stuff … which you’ll end up mostly not using. Then give your credit card to your wife and let her and the dog go off shopping somewhere (so they get to enjoy the trip too.) … …. Just saying.
Keep you eye on Congress. Senate just passed this week, unanimously, to stay year round on one of them. DST … I think. Nevertheless, watch Congress, then as Biden signs it, whichever one it is that will become permanent for all of us.
Very much agree. Except for some special shots of a professional requirement for high dynamics and accurate colors, etc., today you have the ability to get excellent JPEGs, requiring only a little stop in Post (all images benefit from some minor post work), and less and less need for the extreme additional data in RAW files for highly presentable on-line showings, and even prints. Not so, years ago. But today you can choose to really concentrate on the fun of composing and being a master of technical skills in making lots of great images In_Camera to enjoy and share, or a slave to many hours as a graphics artist behind the computer screen … and not even care if you have become a technically competent photographer or not, since you can correct nearly any/every sloppy shot in Post. The choice is yours. Be a photographer, or be a graphics artist and computer nerd. JPEGs are so good these days, and camera’s so good at doing their part of processing a technically well taken image, that RAW really isn’t often necessary. Photographer or Graphics Artists. Whichever you enjoy most, today you really do have an equal choice … and 98% equally acceptable possible results, JPEG or RAW. Me. I have enjoyed becoming a better and better photographer In-Camera over the past 8-10 years, with less and less time required behind the screen. It’s nice to have that choice … and with today’s level of camera technologies, it is a very viable choice.
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.)
More fun and satisfying making pictures from behind the camera lens than spending hours as a graphics artist on the PC doing Post Processing of image after image. (At least that’s true for me.)
Nice action shot. However, since this is practice (for them) and ideal trial and experimentation time for you, did you try other exposure/speed capturing options to see if you could be just as successful at 1/2000, 1/1000 shutter speed, giving you a maybe ISO at 1600 or even lower? Now’s the time to test the lowest shutter you can get away with.
Also, if this is a practice facility or a high school/small college facility) do be aware that most of them have lower lighting power. Our eyes adjust so don’t realize it. But most pro facilities (soccer, football, baseball, basketball) and big name colleges have much higher lighting power that TV stations demand (or they won’t cover them) for their cameras. So, you might also consider that possibility at the upcoming games you plan on covering.
Good luck … and just have lots of fun!
Thank you. That is a relief.
With a PS and LR subscription you have to also subscribe to iCloud as Well? I prefer to save all my own images and store them myself. I was about to subscribe to PS/LS Classic … but now I’m not so sure. Will be interested in what others comment on your question.
I Will only worry if it turns up in a museum and I wasn’t paid thousands for it. But then, probability is about 0.0%. Just like 99.99% of everyone else who calls themselves (when no one else is calling them that) a photographer. Just relax, shoot up a storm, and have fun. Life is too short to worry about such small stuff.
“War and Peace” could be typed on an old Smith Corona. “Moby Dick” was written with quill and pen on aged paper. A grade “D” thesis can be written on the most technologically advanced PC. It takes an artist to create art. The tool may make it easier and faster to do … but it takes an artist to make it art. And THAT doesn’t depend upon the tool.
The technology is just the raw means of getting to the essence of photography: The why. The art of it. Not the HOW you did it. … Most people don’t choose Model A Fords as their preferred choice for transportation, either.