[WhiteFeather]

I spent the last weeks in looking for all the digital pictures I took since I shot digital (Spring 2001), and which were saved (or lost, depending on the point of view) on a number of older hard disks, CDs, DVDs and memory cards.

It was a great way to refresh my memory, and to wonder how much the world of digital photography evolved in these past years. The main reason behind that however was to be able of storing all my pictures in a same place (a 1TB hard disk that I have immediately cloned to another, just to be on the safe side ) and have always them at hand.

After having sorted everything out, I was really curious about how many digital pictures I ever took in 16 years: "just" over 92000 for a total of around 476GB of data. Not even enough to match the shutter life of any of my DSLRs, even if I believed I took trillions pictures.

I do believe you guys have done much better in your digital photographic life, isn't it?

[SpecialK]

I have 71,500 keepers. I'm guessing I've shot 4-10 times as many, or more. I tend to shoot first, chimp later.

[boriscleto]

My Lightroom has indexed 49373 objects. Not all are photos and not all are mine...I couldn't tell you how many I've deleted over the years...

Of Pentax photos: 13321 K-3, 21703 K-5, 5718 K-x, 100 Q10.

[tvdtvdtvd]

I guess I'm on the conservative side of things. Going strictly by shutter count, I've taken between 15000 and 20000 digital images
since I bought my first digital camera in 2001. That's counting ALL images captured, including test fires and misfires, (plenty of those
working with flash triggers). I've logged about 7000 clicks on my K10D and another 5000 on my K3. I've easily shot another 5000
across all other digital cameras, including smartphone.

Perhaps I should shoot more? Perhaps it's because I've never, aside from once or twice, ever shot in burst mode?

[monochrome]

Optio A40 ???
Olympus E20n ???
K10D -> 22,537
K-01 -> 11,232 (across both bodies)
Q/Q7 -> 5,126
K-3 - <5,000 in 18 months)
K-1 -> 4,232

No idea how many rolls of film since 2004 when I bought the Olympus.

[08amczb]

Approximetly 55'000 keepers, 31'000 of these taken with the K-30 and (a few with the KP and some borrowed Pentaxes). The shutter count on the K-30 is aprroximetly 85'000. I would like to have a 50% keeper rate and I am much better in the recent times.

[pathdoc]

Insofar as I recall, I ran the clock over on my *istDL before it died, and then a few. Perhaps 12,000 before it piled its nose into the dirt for the last time.

My current *istDS came to me at IMGP1000 or thereabouts, and I just ran that up to IMGP4000 this week. Add another 3000.

My K-5 has turned the clock over twice and is 7000 shots into the third 10,000.

Once you account for deletions and a couple of sequence resets I had to do because I put cards in at the wrong time, I reckon probably about 45,000 images since I first picked up the *istDL in 2005.

I don't even want to think about how many cellphone images I have taken; I am not counting those.

[JensE]

Wondered about that myself - looking at my inflationary storage growth recently. About 3000 exposures on a compact, 5000 on an EOS 450, 30000 on a K-5 and currently a bit more than 6000 on the K-1. Very few on phones. I exclusively shot manual-focus film SLRs until ~2008, which likely still has a big impact on how I use a digital camera.

So 44000, but then I haven't done many time lapses, little sports, BiF ... more static subjects. I kept 23700 raw files (+compact JPGs), or roughly half of them, even though it should have been at most 25%, but I'm getting better at culling shots, and so do the management tools.

[joergens.mi]

camera bought shutter count
K1 April 2016 27212
K3 Februar 2014 66561
K5 2012 88667
K20D 2010 87206
several before ~ 12000
mobile ~ 200

[WhiteFeather]

I'm not sure on the number but I've produced approx 10 TB of data since ~2006. I shoot much less now than I used to and focus on slower work, but the files take much more space. My guess is I've shot btwn 750k-1 million images - but I used to shoot weddings and used to work for a newspaper, including sports coverage. It wasn't unusual to make thousands of images in a day.

I guess maybe this is a lot, then again, this is my job.

Wow 750k to 1 million images is really a lot! On how many cameras? And those cameras were all yours? Considering that the average shutter life of a pro body is 200000 clicks, have you ever reached that limit on a single body?

[Digitalis]

Roughly 150,000 images a year, with mixed types of cameras both Film and Digital... the total number of images I produce each year depends on what I get involved in that year. Typically over 40,000 of the images I produce each year will be sold and used for commercial purposes. I usually pick out 1000 images for private portfolios*, and whittle that number down to the best 10.


*though there are some jobs I take on where the copyright of the works are in the hands of the person who paid for it - I can't put those photos in my portfolio for copyright reasons.

[WhiteFeather]

Roughly 150,000 images a year, with mixed types of cameras both Film and Digital... the total number of images I produce each year depends on what I get involved in that year. Typically over 40,000 of the images I produce each year will be sold and used for commercial purposes. I usually pick out 1000 images for private portfolios*, and whittle that number down to the best 10.


*though there are some jobs I take on where the copyright of the works are in the hands of the person who paid for it - I can't put those photos in my portfolio for copyright reasons.

Congrats! 40k of the images you take each year sold and used for commercial purposes... that's really an incredible result!

I have the same question for you: with so many pictures taken every year, have you ever reached the point where you had to change a camera (whatever it was) due to excessive wear? How many different bodies you are using?

Again, congrats for your results!

[timb64]

7,500 uploaded to Flickr which probably accounts for roughly a quarter of the photos I've taken.

[biz-engineer]

Pentax K200D, 25000
Pentax K5, 23000
Pentax K3, 30000
Pentax K1, 22000

[SpecialK]

Perhaps I should shoot more? Perhaps it's because I've never, aside from once or twice, ever shot in burst mode?

Yes, you need to get out more :-) I tried high-speed burst once or twice at an airshow. Lots of similar images - lots of time chimping 900 shots for 150 keepers...