10000 shots spent

[jstuedle]

10k a month jstuedle? How many total? Looks like I have quite a few years left on my baby...

I have about 110K on my D1, something over 70K on my D1X. I beleive the shutter in the D1 series is the same as that of the F5. It seems I read they are rated at 150K exposures. Good thing the D1 is just about retired. I'm thinking of converting it to a IR only body to get some more use out of it.

 

[PlasticSpanner]

hahahaha yeah... Saffron Walden rate was 100% ... even more... coz I took a few pic with your camera, with Tony's... and..lol... I think that I tried everybody's camera

You're just a photography whore aren't you!

If you people are taking thousands of shots per month, what is your main subject? I only have a few and could stretch to a film a week if I could get the time to go out!

If you do photography for a living then I could understand it!

Unless it's down to heavy use of continuous mode?

 

[jstuedle]

I shot promo for bands that my kids knew for a couple of years. Yes, shot a lot of continuous mode to catch THE shot with the bands lighting. Wore on me and the camera a lot. I am a lot worse for the wear than the Nikon is. The D1 was a better camera for that venue than the D1X was, faster frame rate and higher ISO made a difference. I used the 1X when shooting for CD case covers and promo posters, it did a great job there. When we go somewhere we won't be back for a while I shoot a lot, and when shooting pets and kids I use continuious mode then too. It all adds up.

 

[LaFoto]

...what is your main subject? ...
Unless it's down to heavy use of continuous mode?

Well, I have a good many "continuous themes" running in my head, several of which got inspired by this very forum here, such as fence posts or textures.
Over all, what I CAN (could) photograph every day is landscapes galore, but for those I am (have always been) waiting for the right light, time of day, atmosphere or some such things. And many of my photos are boring. I save them on an external hard drive (well, several of those by now, cough-cough), but don't "touch" them again, like bumping contrasts or saturation, cropping or whatever little things I do (can exclusively do, since I am too silly to understand Photoshop) to pictures that I like.

And sometimes I also just take "boredom pics"... something I would most certainly NEVER do with the 35mm Canon. Remember the dust on my CD player in the car? That kind. Just so I can DO something while I wait for my daughter to come out of the pool/her ballet lessons etc.

And sometimes I go on something special, like a trip over to England, Essex to become more precise, Saffron Walden to become VERY precise, to meet you guys there, and on those occasions I tend to photograph lots, for my own memories as well as for the attempt to capture "The Good One". One that "speaks" and has some "meaning", other than a snapshot of a gathering.

Or my trips into Hamburg. I really was on a "mission" then, and on those I spend some more film + room on the chip than usually. If I would make it to the zoo again one day, I'd certainly not be thrifty with film and room on chip, either.

But I am beginning to try and reduce my "waste" and think and compose more beforehand, something that digital cameras tend to make you "un-learn". The Leica is leading me back along that path of being more careful. (I hope ).

 

[jstuedle]

But I am beginning to try and reduce my "waste" and think and compose more beforehand, something that digital cameras tend to make you "un-learn". The Leica is leading me back along that path of being more careful. (I hope ).

I look at digital from another perspective. It permitts me to experiment more than I ever did with film. For no reason I will pick up my bellows, attach a reversed 50mm lens and shoot bread, then a bird feather, then the shutter from and old camera I tore appart years ago. Stuff I would not waste film on before has made salable images for me now. I now have the freedom to experimant with abandon. Well, almost that much. I think I will post my feather pic, just to see if anyone likes it. Let me know if you catch it in the other fourm.

 

[LaFoto]

It permitts me to experiment more than I ever did with film....

Actually, I wholeheartedly agree on this.
This is exactly what I am doing with my little compact digital, and I am enjoying it. The instant gratification factor of digital photography helps me to learn about a couple of things that I had known in theory but never tested for fear of wasting too much film, and it gives me the chance to experiment (I called it "play") and try out things that I had never thought of before. So yes, I am quite enjoying that aspect of digital photography.

 

[eydryan]

first of all i have to say i'm quite surprised by the number of posts in such a short time and i'm amazed at the fact that some people shoot more...

nowadays i shoot a lot of crap as i take the digital to school and all my female colleagues just want pics more for expressions rather than artistical value... and that burns 512Mb a day. at least

but 180000?! man where do you keep all that stuff? and for how long have you been shooting?

it's hard for me to follow up on all that has been written here but i see this is kinda turning into yet another digital vs film discussion so let's not sidetrack.

and littleman, no matter what you say if you got 3 wrong from 432 then you didn't get such good pictures per total. no one can achieve a success rate higher that say 80%, no matter what. it's the usual problems and also you simply cannot do that unless you're too good a photographer. by sucess rate i mean here the rate of very good photos, not the rate of acceptable ones.

if i dropped a point from around here target me to it and i'll discuss that one too.

 

[jstuedle]

but 180000?! man where do you keep all that stuff? and for how long have you been shooting?

I have albums with DVD's of all raw images, CD's and DVD's of all edited/finished for print files and a bank of external hard drives with it all online at the flip of a power switch. I purchased a used D1 in 2000, a new D1X in early 2002 and a used D1H in mid 2003. I have shot film since 1965. Did I miss anything?

 

[jstuedle]

no one can achieve a success rate higher that say 80%, no matter what. it's the usual problems and also you simply cannot do that unless you're too good a photographer. by sucess rate i mean here the rate of very good photos, not the rate of acceptable ones.

Yea, I did miss something. I worked part time for a studio photog in the early '70s. I can honestly say he might have blown one shot in the 9 months or so I was there. But then that is a different situation. All the lights were "string" measured from the subject, the posing chair and camera locations marked on the floor, it was almost idiot proof, and very boring. But for a mobile photog, %80 I would say is exceptional. But then even with film I would bracket, try moving a little to make another perspective work, or try another shot laying down or standing on a fence or ladder. Always "play'in" around for THE shot.

 

[eydryan]

aproximate number of gigabytes the content takes up...

 

[eydryan]

and about the success rate yeah that's what i thought...

 

[LaFoto]

When my sister flew to Namibia a month ago, she had to do some explaining to the customs officers in the airport, like why she was carrying 50 (!) rolls of film in her hand luggage?

She filled 46 of those 50 rolls within a fortnight there.
Plus two complete 512mb flash cards. The latter by spending EVERY single night in her hotel room editing out things that only remotely seemed to be out of focus, blurred, too dark, whatever.

Why?
Because she knows that she won't get back there any time soon. Re-shoots are impossible.
So she tried to capture what she saw as best as she could and from various angles. Or she snapped away out of the moving bus, hoping to get a couple of "good" photos with some kind of meaning. Whether only to herself of others, too, doesn't matter for the moment.

Technically, there were only as few "bloopers" among her photos as LittleMan is saying that he is having (counting the prints ... like I said, she deleted a good many of her digital photos that went wrong technically every night).

And I found each of the ones that I saw interesting enough to spend some time with it. In the end, however, when we started to think about which ones would be worth shown (up here, for example), I chose about a 9 % of her prints, for there was always one "best" out of a series of photos.

So yes, especially in situations that won't repeat themselves, we need to photograph "in abundance". I am sure also the pros who get published in the big magazines do that. There is no one around who takes ONE photo of something and that ONE photo is THE BIG HIT, and he takes another ONE photo of something else and that, too, is the SECOND BIG HIT and so on.

However I come to thinking that digital should not revert us into "snappers".
I sometimes see that kind of danger in it.
Though I am definitely not one who says "either...or". I am not fanatic about "only film" or "only digital", I do both and accept both, and I can be careful (about composing, framing, lighting, DOF) AND careless (or "playful", or "experimenting", whichever word you prefer). All in one.

 

[LaFoto]

And I am now thinking that this thread has turned so much into an "ON topic"-thread that it would belong in the Photography Discussion Forum!
Shall I move it?

 

[jstuedle]

I think you are right, if might be of some help to others.

 

[eydryan]

yeah well i believe that's where i wanted to put it first i just found this one with discussion in it so i jumped to so pls move it to its rightful location...

jstuedle u still haven't said how much space the collection actually ocuppies. (in gb and why not in actual space)

snapshooters it is i am afraid. but it's only on compacts i think. i don't think that if i had an eos digital i would shoot so much. it's bigger bulkier and not that automatic... i dunno really, but i think this trigger happiness is characteristic to compacts only. gosh i wish i had the cash for a dslr would cut the hell out of my costs...