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I feel like I shoot quite a lot these days, but was shocked when I worked it out last night to find I've done c. 21,500 actuations on my 550D in 12 months.

That's almost 60 photos per day, everyday!

I only shoot for fun, never do any paid stuff and usually shoot long exposures so I never expected it to be so many!

How about you? Which camera(s) and how many shots have you taken? Wonder who has the biggest numbers!
 
Thats bloody impressive! Any idea on overall shutter counts?
 
I've put a few thousand through the 5D3 already but that will slow down a little now as I've mainly been testing (playing) with different settings etc :thumbs: I probably take a couple of hundred photo's a week on average :thumbs: some weeks I'll take 7 photo's :D one a day :suspect:
 
Maybe 2000 per month here also. But that includes the wife's snaps as well. If I shot sports I'm sure I'd rack up a lot more at 8fps... Now it's single shots only and no machine-gunning :)
 
I bought my 1000D a couple of years ago, hardly used it until about 6 months ago, when the count went from about 700 to 5255 at the weekend. Hopefully I'll be able to keep the numbers going up now
 
My newer D3s was bought in November and is on 27,000. The older one is somewhere around 60k
 
Just coming up for 10,000 on my 350D bought in October 2006.

John:)
 
As of today 8,518 in 2 years since I bought the 500D, though its rising fast as I seem to be shooting around 30-40 shots a day at present.
 
Not as many ad I would like. Just don't have enough time for it.
 
I've shot about 2,500 on my 5D3 and about 1,800 on my 60D so far but my very little used now 550D has about 14,000 since dec 2010. I've gone through a few thousand on my 5D2 and 7D that I had before the 5D3 and 60D. I think I have around 47,000 photos from various cameras on my hard drive though (as well a few thousand not on the hard drive), but at least they're all backed up.
 
I'm just coming upto 16,000 on my 350D that i've had since early 2006.
 
Ive had this current D700 for around 2 years, and its got about 28k on it. Think it had about 13k when I got it..

Quality not quantity here.. :lol:
 
Just hit 330 on my 2nd 5Dmk2 my first one has 6k

Never get to use the thing as i seem to be offshore more than i'm at home these days.
 
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A lot less now I've stopped shooting weekend sports, but around 40K on my 300D, then upgraded to my 40D, which shot around 80K before the shutter broke, which got upgraded to a 50D, which is around 80K also. Add to that I have a 400D backup body (or lightweight/small/cheap for other uses), with around 10K on it.
 
had my D3100 for 1.5 months, done just under 3000 by shutter count program i used a few days ago.

so around 50 per day, haven't gunned anyone down yet, lol. but do take it almost everywhere.
 
I generally don't count or worry about mine, but my 50D has just had a shutter replacement!
 
TCR4x4 said:
...Quality not quantity here.. :lol:
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Quantity not quality in my case :lol:

Done about 3047 on my D7000 in the last two weeks and what with shooting a lot of video, it'll be interesting to see how it fares after a year of shooting

My main D2x body has 150,000 or so.
 
I'd be more worried about the 'water damage' than frame rate in your case! :lol:
 
boyfalldown said:
My newer D3s was bought in November and is on 27,000. The older one is somewhere around 60k
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Amateur ;)

D3S is showing 35K though I reported an error to Nikon that it reset itself when it was around 50K and I think it's done it again. I'd guess somewhere around 100K.

D3 is about 175K. I'll probably get it serviced when it hits 250.
 
I have found this thread quite fascinating, and as a relative beginner, I was hoping you would allow me a couple of questions for those of you with tens or hundreds of thousands of photos under their shutter.

Out of all the shots you take, what percentage would you say are keepers? I know this will vary depending on the situation, subject and conditions and whether you are trying out something new, but on average, what proportion would you keep and of those, what proportion would be ones you are really proud of?

The other thing I'm curious about is what you do with all those shots on your hard drives. Do you look back at the older ones regularly, occasionally or not at all? Do you show them off, put them on a website for any passers-by to enjoy?

Thanks for your thoughts!
 
not the best person to answer, but i'll just give my take as a beginner.

i use Lightroom to organise everything, when importing, i import to my photography 1TB drive as well as permanent backup on my NAS.
-then for photos i that didn't make the cut, i mark them with X flag.
-the good ones i mark them with Pick flag, which gets published to my NAS's photo album for friend and families (login required).
-from the picked ones there i pick out the best ones (while respecting friend/family's privacy) to publish on my homepage, hosted by my NAS and publish on Flickr.

i've yet to clean up, if i do, i'll delete by date on my local 1TB drive. i won't delete any RAW files my NAS, because you never know when those digital negatives will come in handy.

i'd say less than a quarter are X flagged, around half are shared to private photo albums (that's due to duplicates, but almost all "moments" are there) but less than 1 in 10 are shared publicly. of course, it all depends on what you are shooting.
 
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I took about 500 photos at the British wildlife centre a f weeks ago and I think I kept about 30 of them. Of those there were about 8 that were better than the rest.
When I went walking with wolves I kept about 60 of the 400 photos I took.
 
MJWC1 said:
I have found this thread quite fascinating, and as a relative beginner, I was hoping you would allow me a couple of questions for those of you with tens or hundreds of thousands of photos under their shutter.

Out of all the shots you take, what percentage would you say are keepers? I know this will vary depending on the situation, subject and conditions and whether you are trying out something new, but on average, what proportion would you keep and of those, what proportion would be ones you are really proud of?

The other thing I'm curious about is what you do with all those shots on your hard drives. Do you look back at the older ones regularly, occasionally or not at all? Do you show them off, put them on a website for any passers-by to enjoy?

Thanks for your thoughts!
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I have about 100,000 images but these are the keepers as such. The really duff ones are ditched straight away once loaded into Lightroom. Of the keepers, about 15,000 have been flagged with a 5-star rating, meaning they're the ones that are sent to the editors or in the case of personal stuff, kept for my portfolio.

Of that amount I wouldn't want to hazard a guess at the stuff I'm proud of; shots of maggots being being put on a hook or a casting sequence might be valuable to the mag but don't rank highly personally. I'd say my flickr stream is pretty indicative of the shots that I love from both my work and my personal shooting.

Older shoots do get revisited now and then, especially when it comes to collating some kind of portfolio or putting shots together for a website. I very, very rarely re-edit old shots though, as I see the ones I edited in the past as being who I was then not who I am now.
 
Daryl said:
Between 15,000 and 21,000 a month. Usual is about 700 to 1100 a day.

Schools multi pose.
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That's a hell of a lot.

Out of interest Daryl, I take it a lot of those shots are the individual shots of each child - just to make sure everything is belt and braces in terms of focus, are you shooting on relatively high f-stops, say f/8?
 
Due to a back injury ive been restricted getting about for the past 12 months so i am ashamed to say i have taken no more than 400 to 500 pictures in that time.
 
tomorrow i will take my first shutter on my new d7000 sat on the couch already waiting for it to be delivered :)
 
Goodness there are some big shooters on here.I just bought my first DSLR a used 450d with 25k actuations and was getting a bit worried that it was on teh high side for a 4yr old camera but now I see that it's no more than low to average.:thumbs:

You young whippersnappers don't know what it was like back in the film days £5-6 for a roll of film inc developing and printing.Thank god for digital you can now snap away to our hearts content for now't.:)
 
Yup the thing with digital is that you can try different things at no cost. I've just been out shooting image
For a dynamic range exercise and shot about 30 ages trying different things
 
kbfern said:
You young whippersnappers don't know what it was like back in the film days £5-6 for a roll of film inc developing and printing.Thank god for digital you can now snap away to our hearts content for now't.:)
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its an aside, but if you look at the assignments from some pro photographers on film, they'd bring back 6-800 rolls of film (20,000-30,000 photos) to narrow to 30 for publications. Its cheaper yep, but high photo numbers aren't new
 
On my current camera, well I have 4 current cameras, but if you mean the one I'm using the most, then it just got over 3000 clicks on it last week - that's after 15 months of owning it.
 
kbfern said:
....You young whippersnappers don't know what it was like back in the film days £5-6 for a roll of film inc developing and printing.Thank god for digital you can now snap away to our hearts content for now't.:)
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I started on film - does that make me old? I'm only 32 :lol:

I can remember shooting on 35mm when I first started on the magazines. Generally I'd come back with between 15 and 20 rolls per feature, sometimes more if I was using flash. Plenty of bracketing in those days :)

I think we saved something like £15,000 in our first year using digital on film costs, devving and repro. These days I rarely bracket but still shoot willy nilly but it is so much cheaper than film it's scary to think about the costs involved! :)
 
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