Reaching a milestone...

[AlphaWorld]

For the first time in my life I have reached the milestone of taking half a million images with one camera. I've never managed that before, and I don't know if I'll do it again, but I have reached that point with the A9 III.

And the penultimate image before reaching that was:

Somehow, that seems frighteningly appropriate.

For anyone who cares, that was shot at f/5.6 at 150mm on the 50-150 f/2 GM at 1/2000 ISO 1000 on the A9 III. I thought I'd use f/5.6 to cover any sudden movement of my subject, but I needn't have bothered

With images ranging around 28 to 31MB, half a million images should occupy around 15 terabytes. which may explain why my NAS is starting to grizzle about filling up Probably time to cull an image or two, but I might treat this as an opportunity to justify a new NAS using 10 or 12TB drives in an 8 drive enclosure.

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

I thought I'd use f/5.6 to cover any sudden movement of my subject, but I needn't have bothered

Congratulations on your half million!

When I last looked, the total tally of my three Sony alpha cameras over about 7 years was over one hundred thousand. My a 7iv just crossed its second birthday at 31,800. I have a long way to go: i don't think you'll need 1/2000th to capture my progress, lol.

 

[THXGEEK]

For the first time in my life I have reached the milestone of taking half a million images with one camera.

Thank goodness for high-FPS shutter buttons or your index finger would have fallen off!


Congrats!

 

[iamdlewis]

Grats I guess. I took a look to see how I can tell what my count is but what I found only seems to say what the shutter use count is as ~3800 for my A1 is slightly less than the ~25000 I took in Costa Rica.

For your storage space may I suggest looking into a delete key? That feature on my keyboard has saved me many a coin in storage space.

 

[Unframed Dave]

I can't help but think about when I had saved up my apprentices wages for a motordrive for my OM2. I used a bulk loader in the dark and could wind 40 exposures worth of film onto a spool and still got charged for processing 36. Two frames per second made for heady days, but the expense!