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!

 

[spudhead]

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:

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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.

How far did the tortoise get before you hit Half a million shots Tony? in 40ish years of shooting I have not even come close to that number of shots across several cameras, half a million that`s crazy

 

[Paul stuart]

thats roughly around 11 hrs of shooting at 120fps not bad shows how quickly you can rack up that amount

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

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.

I have decided to keep only the raw+xmp and a small 1920 jpeg, for casual browsing, for each pic. The capability of recreating the full-size jpeg is there: keeping them all is literally a waste of space.

I have decided... going through so many folders and implementing, will take some time. Starting from when I get around to it

 

[AlphaWorld]

How far did the tortoise get before you hit Half a million shots Tony? in 40ish years of shooting I have not even come close to that number of shots across several cameras, half a million that`s crazy

The tortoise moved its head, I think . I'd been photographing birds in flight, so the camera was on 20fps. I think I have something like 8 shots of the tortoise.

At no point did I claim that there was careful thought or even sanity associated with me reaching that milestone

I have the luxury of taking photographs for fun. It also motivates me to get out for some exercise and fresh air, which I need at my age.

Many years ago I passed the 100 000 milestone for the first time using a Canon 1Ds III - I owned that camera for several years, and its burst rate was a small fraction of the A9 III's. Back then I was reading posts online about efforts like a sports shooter reaching well over a million shots on a 1D II body before needing to replace the shutter (impressive, considering the shutter was rated for something like 300k!) - so I'm not claiming this as a record for anyone but myself. I didn't track my shots on the original A1 very accurately, but I know I was over 150k.

 

[iamdlewis]

It also motivates me to get out for some exercise and fresh air, which I need at my age

Why I got back into photography to begin with. I am curious as to how many I have taken. I do have a little over 114,000 images that I have kept over the years. If we go conservative and say I keep 1 in 10 (probably closer to 1 in 20) I am well over the million mark.

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!

For me that is why today is better than the days of film. You paid for the film, then you paid to have someone else develop it or you paid to have the space, equipment, chemicals and paper to do it yourself. Any of the most popular editing software suites are cheaper than shooting and developing 1 roll a month.