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

[doitashimash1te]

Shutter-presses or keepers??

I'd say keepers.

 

[back alley]

if i count the keepers and the sortas...

8

 

[MoTR]

Em Hundreds of Thousands Digi This century.
Putting my analog figure in the 5000range this century.

in the 20,000digi region last century.
And analog in the 1000-2000range.

 

[MoTR]

And keepers,
Maybe 500 outta the lot 🙂

 

[chenick]

I can give a better guess of analog than digital!

pre 2000:
analogue: about 3 rolls of 127 and 5 of 35mm 🙂
digital: 0

post 2000:
analogue: about 30 rolls of 35mm since 2004
digital: i dunno, 15000? based on 3 diferent digicams since 2000.

I still have my Kodak Brownie 127, in perfect working order (of course it was so simple there's nothing to go wrong - just 1 shutter speed.

-Nick

 

[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.

By comparison, it is said that Stieglitz made about 1500 negatives, Weston about 5000, during their whole lives. But then I need more practise than they did 🙁
Jaap: These figures are totals, of course. Keepers are a tiny fraction. But I keep them all anyway (except for those I already lost along the way).

 

[jan normandale]

This is a fascinating thread

• Obviously this survey will not be a good statistical sample due to the bias of the universe towards film, so what can be done with this information.
• I’m amazed that some people even know or have a rough estimate of the number of digital and analog photographs they have taken.

 

[Pherdinand]

well, Jan, the choices are not that many. One can easily figure it out if has more than 1000 or 10 000.

 

[DavidH]

I’m amazed that some people even know or have a rough estimate of the number of digital and analog photographs they have taken.

Well when it comes to digital, my camera keeps count for me - the filename is an incremental counter that I've never reset since new - 2 years ago...also, I get about 100 images per card so for a shoot last week, I know I took 300 shots...for example.
Analog-wise, I develop my own black and white and scan the best ones...and keep a log of success and failure in the developing of them.

Ask me how many cameras I've owned...and that's far more difficult...

🙂

 

[pvdhaar]

I've taken thousands of pictures, both analog and digital. But the key question is of course, how many of them really were good pictures.. and then it becomes more like one a year.

 

[Vagabond]

Many pictures but few photographs.

 

[IGMeanwell]

By comparison, it is said that Stieglitz made about 1500 negatives, Weston about 5000, during their whole lives. But then I need more practise than they did 🙁
way).

yeah, I can agree with that!!! Practice is the major reason my DSLR has surpassed 30,000 clicks.

 

[ZeissFan]

30,000? remind me not to buy your used digicam ... 😉

 

[amateriat]

Hmm...from, say, 1974 up to 2000? Let's just say a scary amount ("10,000+?" Hell, that's just the keepers). Since 2000, "a healthy amount", non-digital catagory, while the digital count is perhaps around 2000+, counting the borrowed cameras (EOS-1D, Nikon D1, Olympus C8080 et al), and the only digicam I actually own at the moment, an Olympus D-510Z.


- Barrett

 

[Nick R.]

Is that with lens cap on or off?

 

[migtex]

Analog, I'm lost... too many 1000's still, started the Digi thing in 1998 with the Sony Mavicas and diskettes (anyone have one?) and now I have a dedicated storage server at home with.... 2.5 TB. Got to stop this insanity!! But it only goes Worst/Better...

 

[rbsinto]

87,463. Ooops. 87,464. I just took another shot of the cats.

 

[ChrisPlatt]

It's been 35 years since I got my first camera (at age 10).

We've had 35 Christmas trees since then.

The answer for me is 35 pictures total. 😉

Chris

 

[Socke]

I started event photography with some friends in 1999, bought a Canon Powershot G1 as soon as it was available to save the hassle and cost to get pictures shot on saturday night on a website on tuesday 🙂

Next was a Canon D30 and a D60 later.

We sold highest end colour printers, anybody remember Tekronix?, and so had several digicams from the mid 90s on, but they wheren't very usefull.

So a lot of the early partypix are on film, anything what we could get cheap.
I have eight desk drawers full with the sleeves you get from labs.

From the 80s I have five shoeboxes with prints, ca. 400 prints per box, and four binders with prints which I haven counted, between 1 and three prints per page and 40 pages each.

Anything older got lost.

 

[MartinP]

The turn of the century was an odd (but obvious) time to put the cut-off. I emigrated from the UK, with a darkroom for work or at home, to NL with nothing. So there is a pretty large difference for me. Apart from the happy-snaps, I have only started making pics again in the last year or so.

Chris ? Does this mean that at the end of this year you will be getting the roll developed ? 😉