Poll: how many pictures have you taken so far in your lifetime?

[doitashimash1te]

I'd like to know how many pictures you have taken since 2000 (since the start of the "digital revolution") and how many before. Although this century is only 6 years old, I suspect that the amount of "pictures taken" has been exploding since the millennium, not only in digital, but also in analog form.

(More than one option allowed in this poll.)

 

[rogue_designer]

previous - 10,000+ analog
current - roughly 2500 analog, and 5k digi (event shoots really burn through the hd space).

All total, I have about 30,000 exposures laying around.

 

[pesphoto]

How the heck could you know that. Impressive!

 

[Ash]

No idea, thousands over the past few years, plus hundreds before that, and thousands upon thousands of digital

 

[bsdunek]

More than I want to count!

More than I want to count!

When you've been an avid photographer for more than 60 years, it can really add up. Do I count my 8mm movie frames? 😎

 

[iml]

I think the right answer is: "lots".

Ian

 

[JohnL]

I have about 500 35mm films on file, about 15000 images, and at least another 5000 must have been lost along the way, plus a few hundred medium format.
Digital images: about 40K so far, mostly preserved on CDs / DVDs, which I plan to re-record periodically.

 

[pesphoto]

I guess I could count up my negs.....nah....way too many
Plus I took countless pics when just learning manay many years ago and regretfully didnt save most of those...i dont know why, now I regret it.

 

[markinlondon]

Er, ask me an easy one...

 

[dreilly]

Not enough, by far.

But for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer, I took a lot of photos! Those were the days.

 

[Pherdinand]

I figure 36 shots per roll, and from there, i should be above 1000 but below 10000...

 

[oftheherd]

Last century I had about 8k slides alone. I am not even sure about b/w, but lots. Up until a couple of years ago, most of what little I did was film, but now mostly digital, and mostly of my grandson. Other family thrown in.

 

[DavidH]

Over 20,000 with the D70 alone in the last 2 years...with many thousands on film as well...so many in fact that I've just bought a bulk loader and will be rolling my own to try and save money...

Last century...? Well I'm 42 and been shooting for years...I figure I could have bought another house for the money spent on photography...

🙂

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Some people are actually counting? ::scratches head::

I have no idea. Oodles. Gazoodles. Give or take a bunch 😉 Or two.

 

[rogue_designer]

How the heck could you know that. Impressive!

My binders hold about 100 sheets of 35 frames - so I just need to count binders to get a general idea. 🙂
The digital I can do a general file count to get some idea.

The fun part was figuring out how many 4x5's I had in my cardboxes (approx 2500)

 

[sf]

Film: I have a rather thick binder of single cut 645 frames...maybe a couple hundred pages of 16 each. Lots. They were cut from rolls (I look through the roll and choose the ones I want to keep, then cut the rest off). That makes for an enormous number of 120 rolls shot. At least enormous by my consideration. I don't shoot 400 rolls a week like some pros out there.

Digital: doesn't really count. I took a few thousand shots with my D70. Maybe 10000 overall. I care about them only as they are snapshots of family and friends.

 

[ampguy]

I think I've taken about 200,000 photos to date. I don't delete anything.

 

[IGMeanwell]

Not sure how many analog ... but its close to 1,000

I have owned my Nikon D50 about a year now, and my shutter count is just under 30,000

 

[Dfin]

One, Ten, many. Yes, I too could have bought a holiday house up the coast , on a headland or tucked away behind the dunes somewhere. Anyone want a truck load of film cameras? Seriously it would be thousands. When I was shotting weddings,it was common to shoot 5 rolls of 220 plus 6/7 rolls 36/135, so 15years of that plus 33years of my own work, Lots!!!

 

[jaapv]

Shutter-presses or keepers??