What's the Most Frames You Have Recorded in One Day?

[Mills]

Kind of a mundane question but I am curious after today. Went to the Chicago Bears Training Camp morning practice today and took the Pups to the beach this afternoon (Day Off From the Real Job :D ) The total take for the day was 3,676 frames. Can't think of a better way to spend a day off. On a side note, the battery icon is still showing Full on my MK II. What an amazing battery.

[Belmondo]

I doubt if I've ever taken more than 100 shots in one day, but I'd really be interested in the answers of some of the folks who cover motorsport, especially Jim at RFMSports.

[Tom W]

Probably about 400. But that wasn't anything close to typical for me. Normally, even if I shoot a party, I stick around 80-100. If I'm just out shooting, more like 30-50.

[Steveo31]

I think 8 rolls in a day was my max.

8 x 36 = 288

[defordphoto]

On a typical race weekend, I'll shoot anywhere from 1,000 to 1,800 shots. My wife will shoot about half that, thought the last Jet Boat event we covered she shot a half-dozen more shots than I. For the Jet Boats they run from 8:30am until 3-4pm. During that time, my MKII is on the entire day and I'll shoot 1,500-2,000 shots. And I only use one battery, with more left over for the next shoot.

With my wife and I both shooting, it's about 3,000 frames a day. The 10D is over 24,000 and the MKII is now at 9244 actuations.

My throwaways depends on how artsy I'm getting. I like to experiment with ultra slow shutter speeds and creative panning. I sometimes shoot as low as 1/5 sec. Most time they suck, but sometimes we get some interesting shots.

My tossers for out of/partly framed shots and OOFs is about 5%. Dropping from 10-15% when I was shooting with the 10D.

If it's the off season then I'll shoot only 100-300 frames a week, unless I'm out on an assigned shoot.

[KartGirlsMom]

I shot 875 on Sunday at the kart track. I got about 10 good shots :oops:
But it sure is cheaper than film (my 7 day old camera now has 1100 shots on it)

[Mills]

Hey Jim. Good to see your words. Seems like a while. The MK II was worth the wait, wasn't it? Hope all is well.

Today was kinda weird. I was trying to wear the damn battery out. Have a ton to go through, so far there seem to be some good ones.

[defordphoto]

Mills - Between work and my photography I hardly have time to breathe, let alone spend much time on this forum.

The MKII was well, well, WELL worth the wait and the money spent. It has improved the enjoyment of shooting significantly. It has also made my shooting quite a bit easier.

[HTP]

6000

[MHaberman]

Shooting a house fire last fall I think I was right around 200 shots. Might have been more like 250 because I was carrying 2 cameras, but I know the 10D was right around the 200 mark.
This was a 8am to 1 pm event, Tried to pace myself so that the first 100-125 were during the training portion and the remaining shots were when they were letting the place burn to the ground.
RFM - 3000 shots... Geez, and I get tired sorting through 200 :?

[Conk]

The most I've done is 188 for a wedding. One thing I have found though, is shooting in the studio with the remote in hand, it takes 10-15 minutes to rap off 60 shots.

[Penguin_101_1]

Film- 2 or 3 rolls
Digital- 123 pictures, pictures I kept 2 :lol:

[Ronin]

500 or so maybe fo rthe most in one day. Probably five to ten keepers in the bunch

[Ronin]

500 or so maybe fo rthe most in one day. Probably five to ten keepers in the bunch

[tommykjensen]

550+ over 5 hours at the Copenhagen Carnival with the 300D, had I had more memory or an external harddisk I could have shot a lot more.

[Tim A]

550 - wedding.

[c0ntr0lz]

well from May 20th to June 20th i took 12,700 pix
that's is about 423 a day
but i bet i hit about a 1000 or so on of those days

[Aylwin]

Around 400. Keepers: still undecided.

Around 200-250 though on a "normal heavy-shooting day".

[Claire]

Hm, not sure but probably 150-200 during the dance contest. Remember just pressing the shutter over and over again, then in-between songs I'd go through the pics and delete the obvious crap ones.

On a normal day out I'll probably shoot about 30 frames.

[KennyG]

For a major two day motor racing event, maybe 3,500 to 4,000 with two bodies.

More important, is how many of them do you:

a) Delete because they are OOF, off target, under/over exposed, etc.
b) Keep because they are really good shots, worthy of print or submission.
c) Keep because there is nothing wrong with them but they are nothing special.
d) Keep because you hate throwing anything away.

Do you take a lot in the hopes that, by the law of averages, you will get some good ones?

Would you have done the same with film?

[Jesper]

3,676 ?! I have had my 10D for about 7 months now and the counter is at around 3,400. So that's 3,400 shots in 7 months!

I have two 512 MB CF cards (80 RAW images per card) and I almost never have a full card after a day of shooting. There's going to be Summer Carnival in the city (Rotterdam) tomorrow, which is an event that draws a lot of photographers (including me... :-), so it will be a "top day".... :)

[eRebel]

well from May 20th to June 20th i took 12,700 pix
that's is about 423 a day
but i bet i hit about a 1000 or so on of those days

Wow to all of these posts, but this makes me feel a lot better..

I have been stressing about having just over 10,000 shots on my rebel. I have been worried about the 50,000 mark and having the shutter fail. I got the camera in March. I bought the thing to use it..I'm going to use the darn thing. I'll just have to deal with it when the time comes :)

-Erick

[CGNKlaus]

I'm just increasing the amount of pictures due to larger CF-cards. So now my "behavior" has changed. Now I shoot about 300 Pics/day when I'm in Paris or NYC... After that I have to be patient to get the pics transfered on the PC :lol:

[c0ntr0lz]

fearfull of that day too
but it shall not stop me

if and when i have to send in for repairs, if i ask canon to extend my warranty would they or could i purchase an extention?

[RichieHatch]

Holy S**t.... If you where shooting constantly for 10 hours that works out at one shot every 10 seconds or so. I know its a 1D Mark 2 which can take a shed load of images in a second but on my 300D I have only reached that figure and i have it since last November....! Well done....! I would need to sleep for a week after that!

Richie

[theflyingkiwi]

well the most that I have done in one day, is 1300. Which was at warbirds over wanaka. I hate throwing photos out. I figure that I can learn something from each photo shot so at the moment I find it a good way of see my mistakes.

my friends sometimes find it hard to believe that I have taken so many shots.

No matter what I shot I keep all photos, If was shotting with film I would do the same and you just never know.... :)

mark

[Canuck]

I shot 1300 at Fairford Airshow and about 1000 at Farnborough Airshow in back to back weekends, 18 Jul/24 Jul 04.

[mikeg]

534 during a fashion show...

[Scottes]

627 shooting ospreys during an alewife run. About 100 kept, 25 were actual keepers.

[mikeg]

then in-between songs I'd go through the pics and delete the obvious crap ones.

and chimping :wink: :P

[defordphoto]

For a major two day motor racing event, maybe 3,500 to 4,000 with two bodies.

More important, is how many of them do you:

a) Delete because they are OOF, off target, under/over exposed, etc.
b) Keep because they are really good shots, worthy of print or submission.
c) Keep because there is nothing wrong with them but they are nothing special.
d) Keep because you hate throwing anything away.

Do you take a lot in the hopes that, by the law of averages, you will get some good ones?

Would you have done the same with film?

a) I delete all OOFs, off target, bad exposures.
b) Always keep these! ;)
c) I keep these too. They may become usable in the future.
d) I'll throw the crap out. But if it's a decent shot, even if not cover material, it stays.

I shoot alot because like you, when at the track, there is always so much happening. I shoot everything and then assemble them into a meaningful semblence of the event later.

[jimtfoto]

1,000 (between two cameras) during a day at Busch Gardens.

jim

[Lamplight]

Probably about 400. But that wasn't anything close to typical for me. Normally, even if I shoot a party, I stick around 80-100. If I'm just out shooting, more like 30-50.

Change the 400 to 200 and that's me exactly. :D I would shoot more but currently only have two 256mb cards. :(

[BearSummer]

Hi folks,

I guess the most was around 600 for a wedding in Spain on my D60. When shooting landscapes and in the groove at most 200. It the Farnborough airshow I was shooting between 100-150 on my 1Ds. Which includes the validation week, so around 1200 for the two weeks. Shot almos 2Gb of the red arrows during their display on the friday, which is around 180 images in 30 minutes. Maybe i should have shot video instead :)

Where were you at the Airshow Canuck?

All the best

BearSummer

[aam1234]

The no. of photos taken, especially for those with 3,000+, raises another question. How do you manage this high volume of data.

To put the numbers in perspective, and assuming all raw:

3,000 * 40 mb per photo = 120GB (for one day!)

Even with jpeg (and assuming 2.5 mb/photo), it's 7.5 GB!

The amount of data is staggering. How do you handle such a volume, and do you take the cost of managing that into account.


To the original question, I was shooting for a competition and thought I was trigger happy...total no. of shots = 127 :oops:

[jimtfoto]

We shot our 1,000 all on JPG ... and downloaded to 30GB FlashTrax. Carried two 1 GB and two 512 MB cards

jim

[blinking8s]

i took about 600 ina weekend, at a big car event, it was rianiy and overcast, no flash, lots didnt turn out, prob got about 50 shots that weekend, but yeah...i didnt know how to read my light metre then either :)

[dn7elson]

How do you manage this high volume of data.

Streamlined workflow and ruthless trashing of OK to below shots.

To put the numbers in perspective, and assuming all raw:
3,000 * 40 mb per photo = 120GB (for one day!)

RAW images are only about 8MB in size for DRebel/10D, not 40MB which helps.

The amount of data is staggering. How do you handle such a volume, and do you take the cost of managing that into account.

I just shot a few over 200 images this morning in a couple of hours at a wildlife preserve. I used a program called PiXsort (free download :D ) that I learned about on Robert Cavanagh's website (review of software http://www.pixelpixel.org/software_reviews/17_pixort-1.stm ) and separated the keepers, trash and maybes into separate folders in about 15 minutes. Nice thing about PiXsort is that it handles both RAW and JPG images so you don't have to convert or view the small thumbnail before sorting.

Where I get bogged down is in the Photoshop fine tuning of the C1LE converted RAW images. I am definitely still in mid-learning curve on this, but getting better :D

[Persian-Rice]

I took around 500 shots at the Canadian Grand Prix last month...........

[aam1234]

Hi dn7elson,

RAW images are only about 8MB in size for DRebel/10D, not 40MB

I have never shot raw, but my understanding is that:
- about 8 mb for the original raw
- conversion to tif/psd= about 40 mb
- conversion to jpeg = another 2-3 mb

If that calculation is correct, then you are looking at about 50 mb per finished photo.

Now imagine 3,000 of those 50 mb's photos (if my calculation is right)

[dn7elson]

I have never shot raw, but my understanding is that:
- about 8 mb for the original raw
- conversion to tif/psd= about 40 mb
- conversion to jpeg = another 2-3 mb

If that calculation is correct, then you are looking at about 50 mb per finished photo.

That assumes that you convert and keep all of the images. Burning the RAW keepers and associated TIFF to a CD/DVD solves the HD storage issue.

Now imagine 3,000 of those 50 mb's photos

Never gonna happen :lol: If you keep 40% that will be a lot. Of those, if you convert half to TIFFs that would also be a bunch IMHO.

Out of the 200 or so I shot this morning, I'll likely keep 50 RAW and 20 or so TIFF + JPG. 50x8MB = 400MB 20x40MB(TIFF+JPG)=800MB resulting in 1.2GB or 1/4 of a DVD.

KennyG or RFMSports will likely address the % of keepers of a 3,000 shot take, but I would doubt that it exceeds 30-40%, not because they aren't fine shots in most cases, it's just that once you have a room full of fine shots, they start to become less "special" :)

[aam1234]

Hi dn7elson,

Burning the RAW keepers and associated TIFF to a CD/DVD solves the HD storage issue.

Been wanting to experiment with raw for a long time, but file sizes scared me. So would like to ask you how do you go about doing what you said above, without taking much space in the HD.

I would've illustrated what one might do with raw files, but there are many possibilities/ways of handling the files. So would appreciate if you could give us a very brief run down on what you do with the photos after they are taken, and how do you minimize storage space in your HD.

Appreciate any advice

[htbyron]

I hit some new records last weekend when I went to a family gathering for a cousin's wedding.

The wedding was shot by a pair of pros (a pair of MkIIs, with a pair of 10D backups, lots of white lenses...). But I wanted to try out my new "skills" (ha!), since I've been totally obsessed with photography since getting the DRebel in April (actually since getting a G3 last year).

So ... I ended up shooting 432 frames all day (church, reception & after-party), from about 10 am until 8 pm. When I looked at them the next day, I culled out a little more than 100. I haven't yet processed any of them, but I'm hoping to get about 50 out of that total to make a personal album as a wedding gift & maybe another 40-50 for the rest of the family (web presentation). We'll see when I get up the courage to sit down at the computer for a while.

This was after the previous day when I shot 180 frames, mostly of my kids playing with my (other) cousin's kids, as well as of the flower arrangements for my cousin's wife, who wants to put together a portfolio of the floral work she does for weddings.

Before that, my max was about 100 total for a day (typical is about 30-50 per day). So I'm getting used to the idea of shooting LOTS more. It's a different mindset for me, but fits with my obsession!

Tom

[Longwatcher]

My record is 1330 images taken in about 8 hours
My average when shooting is around 160 images per hour or about 450-600 per session.
I average about 1000 per month last year and about 1400 per month this year.

Now on average I end up printing about one 8x10 per 20 taken, because I am trying to do protfolio books and end up needing about 24 prints out of a 3-4 hour session. However, at best I get one shot I think is worth printing at 13x19 per 2000 shots and to date only three I wanted badly enough to have blown up beyond that which makes about 1 in 10,000.

Which seems to be average.

All of the above with three 256MB and one 1GB CF card and one 30gig Picture Pad (location) or my computer (studio).

[Tapeman]

250,000

I kept 1 :lol: :lol:

[Penguin_101_1]

I miss typed mine: 123 and I kept -2. :lol:

[Mills]

I archive everything except the oof's. Since I got the MK II, I have gone to 2 gig cards (3). Still have a couple 512's that usually are employed in the 10D. Just got a 512 SD card. I am now burning mostly to DVD but still use CD's when possible. Best purchase though was a LaCie Big Disk Extreme. Use that extensively.

Normally, I fit in with most of you. 50 - 250 shots. That is really why I asked the question. With the exception of my Fireground Photography, where the number of frames is dictated by size of incident, length of incident and available memory, yesterday was by far and away the most I have ever taken. This is most likely because I was at an NFL Training Camp with really good access. Much like Jim did when he shot his first sprint boats with the MK II, I was putting the camera through its paces. Full Speed NFL Football provides many opportunities to test the buffer of this amazing camera. As do two Black Labrador Retrievers (remember the example of the 8.5 frames per second shooting on the Canon website) at a beach on Lake Michigan with 100 some other dogs.

I need to share some pictures with you. Got many keepers. Even some Great Shots which I never really allow myself to believe I captured. Will get them sorted and posted over the next little while.

I guess the long and short of it is that shooting as many frames as we all do is only possible because of digital. Even 100 frames of film in one day would be cost prohibitive both from a film cost and developing cost standpoint. It has been quite some time since I have purchased or developed film. I think that 36 exposures comes in at around $20 to purchase and develop at a one hour shop around here. That would be about $2,040. About 1/2 the cost of a MK II.

[MarkoPolo]

I shot about 800 last weekend of Rocky Mountain wildflowers and camping trip with 10D for me and Rebel for my wife. Thats 2 640 Delkin pro cards and one Lexar 512 used twice for the rebel, all at high jpeg. :shock: Seemed like a lot to me, but I'm just converting from shooting slides. Mark B

[evilenglishman]

The total take for the day was 3,676 frames

you were shooting jpeg right?

[IndyJeff]

Last year at Chicagoland Speedway I shot somewhere around 600 on Sat before the Delphi 300 on Sunday. Race day was about 400. I think that was the most I ever shot in one day.
I think it was the 2001 Indy 500, still using film, I shot one roll of 36 the entire month and most of that was after the race. My how digital has changed the amount I shoot, LOL.

Last weekend I shot a girls softball tourney and for two days the last frame fired was # 829.

[johneo]

Most I've shot in a day was the airshow back in June (which is also one of the reasons I bought the 10D after last years airshow). During the Saturday show, with VIP seating, I took 647 shots with the 10D and 5 rolls of 36 exp slide film (waste of film :cry: but I wanted to try out my 7NE and what better way ... it'll have its uses :D )

Second most was my nieces wedding last Monday with 380. She asked me to be the photographer at her wedding along with a friend that borrowed a 10D for the day. Not sure how his shots came out but being my 1st wedding, I was somewhat pleased with many of the shots I took.

Average day out and about ... between 100 to 200 depending on the mood, time and environment

[Mills]

Yes sir Evil, JPG.

[Andy_T]

about 400 ... RAW on a G2 with an IBM 1 gig Microdrive
(that spells out slooooooowwww :roll: )

Best regards,
Andy

[DieselGirl]

I just returned from a bodybuilding show of over 200 competitors and took over 3500 pictures.

It was the best!

[MadTony]

Around 800 for me- at a go kart race.

[tommykjensen]

About 500 at last years Carnival in Copenhagen. That record may be broken today or tomorrow as the carnival started last night.

[IanD]

627 shooting ospreys during an alewife run. About 100 kept, 25 were actual keepers.
Wadda bout the 3456 images of the "boys"?:):):):):):):):):):):):):)

[tim]

That assumes that you convert and keep all of the images. Burning the RAW keepers and associated TIFF to a CD/DVD solves the HD storage issue.

The bigger problem could come in 5 years when you want a photo, and find you can't read from the CD/DVD. I don't trust optical media at all. Hard drives are really cheap compared with photography tools, I keep my images on 3 hard drives. Remember when you backup you need offsite backups, otherwise you'd lose them in a fire or if your PC gets stolen. Put a hard drive in a USB case and leave it at a friends place or at work.

[EricKonieczny]

I only had my 20D one month the first week of April and went on a Trip to NYC for 7 days. Talk about a fast learning curve for the week. I used it before I went, but shooting every day for 5-8 hours really was a an experience.

I know I brought home 2584 shots on my Portable storage device. I am estimating I took around 7000 actuations for the week.

The problem is I shot in RAW 90% of the time and editing that many RAW files is a pain in the ass. I am rating them 1, 2, 3 or Trash in Raw Shooter. I thinkI will be done in about 3 months, just in time for another trip.


I typically shoot 3-400 actuations for a 2-3 hour event.

[gasrocks]

Broke my own record one weekend last summer. I do events & such. Went to a small festival Fri afternoon. Circus parade Sat. Another parade Sunday and some birds on the way home Sun pm. Threw out the bad shots- kept 4250. Yes, my legs were tired.

[J.A.F. Doorhof]

My record must be a fashion show, I shot over 1500 shots in 3 shows of 45 minutes.
Normally on a zoo day I will shoot somewhere arround 100-300.

Studio sessions barely come over 150.

[johndm]

Typical at an airshow for me its around 600-700.

Some of the best here...

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?emailsearch=johnmyers@btinternet.com&sort_order=views&distinct_entry=true

[jimbloomfield]

At Baseball games 400-500. With 561 being the most this year

[Turbowolf]

2,742 in one morning last January ... the wolves were directly across the valley and my finger froze while holding down the shutter button. Needless to say, I now own several 2 GB CF cards in addition to the six 1 GB cards.

I know I'll break that record though. In less than 54 hours I'm on the road to Yellowstone. Last info I had was over 14 new wolf pups from the Slough Creek Pack are visible...

[CyberDyneSystems]

I shot about 4,000 in one 6 day stretch once.. 6 days.. and 18GigaBytes.. :)

I've got one day @ 1,500 though as my max. It was a two rehearsals in one day.. the second being the full tech/dress ehearsal.

[BDM]

I upgraded from my Rebel to a MK II about a week ago. It is quite some camera! About the only disappointment so far as my inability to find the custom function that automatically makes good compositions. I was told it was there but so far it has eluded me.

Aside from good photography the MK II will be a great help in building up my wrists. Gosh it's heavy!

Bruce

[kiwimichael]

I recently managed to press my shutter button 2148 times at an Auto Club day at the local circuit.
I have 2 x 2Gb Ultra II cards for my 20D and an X-Drive! I have made an external battery pack for the X-drive as the internal battery only lasts for 2 or 3 downloads.

Michael

[Wazza]

Just under 4,000 kept shots on the Pukekohe Racing weekend 4 weeks ago. (Over a 3 day meeting) - 1508 on Saturday's racing. - Basically shot until I was full on two 1Gb CF cards, shooting JPG Fine, and some Normal setting.

As of today, I've had 20D + lens for exactly 100 days, and shot 26,500, so average of 265 shots a day. I'm out every second day. ;)

[MarkH]

The most in one day? 2580 on my 10D - with no bursts at all, just single shots. This was done in 5hrs 55min.

I was shooting fine-JPG at a jet sprint boat race meeting. I did the whole day on the 2 batteries in the grip. I have deleted all the OOFs and blurred shots, leaving 2077 files on my PC. I selected about 250 shots for my website, but haven't yet put them all up.

I have had my camera for about 2 years and shot about 17000 images, so 2580 on one day is well above average. Usually I shoot 100 to 400 at a typical motorsport event.

The best of the superboat shots from that day are here: http://www.gigatech.co.nz/Superboats2005.htm
I should hurry up and get the R Class and Group A shots sorted and on my site.

[GMosher]

depends what i'm shooting...a walk around the park etc will run about 200 shots...a day at the rallies was running about 550-600 shots. Hopfully taking a crack at some motorcycle races tomorrow, so god only knows.

I picked up the 20D in late march, and I'm on image 8663. I worry about the 50 mark, but we'll just have to wait and see.

[JBillings]

Don't know how many shots/day I've averaged, but I've shot 12.68 gigs worth of images this past week here in DC. It was fun, but now I've got to edit them when I get home.

[Longwatcher]

My record is 1330 images taken in about 8 hours
My average when shooting is around 160 images per hour or about 450-600 per session.
I average about 1000 per month last year and about 1400 per month this year.


Since the above was posted, my record has hit over 3600+ images in one day doing a long model shoot. I am now averaging about 1500-2400 per model shoot and at the Airshow yesterday I hit about 1800 (would have taken more but my portable drive batteries died).

[johnlo]

I averaged about 300 shots daily, in about 4 hours of work.

[Michaelmjc]

I've shot probably about 1000 to 1500 in one day before. It was the first day I arrived in Cuba, got a little shutter happy :o

[the.digital.guy]

Just over 4000 at a College Field Hockey Game that my daughter was in.
I photograph all her games.Most games I shoot around 1000-1200 shots.

[RichardtheSane]

With my 10D I was amazed when I hit 368 shots in a day about a year ago.

Now I am doing dog photography with my 20D for clients they have an hour shoot... and the last hour I put 268 frames in it!
15% deleted due to oof
40% deleted due to the dog looking the wrong way, shutting it's eyes, changing direction as I press the shutter... (you get the picture)

[tamash]

~800. Usually shoot 300-400 for youth sports on a given Saturday or Sunday, but a town event like a classic car show, art fair, or fireworks is always a good excuse to double that.

Bill

[Phil Hall]

Usually I shoot less than 100 shots per day. There was a time when I shot everything in site, now I use the addage "think twice, shoot once". I did get over 1,000 shots recently but that was shooting a series of frames of a Reining horse sliding to a stop, sort of slow motion sequence.

Remember, the more you shoot, the more time you spend on the computer.


Phil Hall

Santa Ynez

[deedas]

I shot about 100 pictures once. It would have been more if I hadn't ran out of space. That was when I still only had two 512mb CF cards.

[blue_max]

With my 10D I was amazed when I hit 368 shots in a day about a year ago.

Now I am doing dog photography with my 20D for clients they have an hour shoot... and the last hour I put 268 frames in it!
15% deleted due to oof
40% deleted due to the dog looking the wrong way, shutting it's eyes, changing direction as I press the shutter... (you get the picture)


What do they say about working with animals and children Richard! Ssssssssit!

Graham

[22littlereasons]

Probably about 1200 or so. Usually about 600 on a normal shoot. I probably post about 1 in 6 of what I shoot, and sell about 1 in 300. For those of you, that like stats. *s*

[FlyingPete]

As of today, I've had 20D + lens for exactly 100 days, and shot 26,500, so average of 265 shots a day. I'm out every second day. ;)

:eek:

Well I guess you will be able to let us know what the expected life of the shutter is sooner than the rest of us!

I have done around 1500max in a single day, the Saturday of a four day music festival. Part of it was a 'Trash Fasion' Parade, about 100 entrants, with multiple angles of each. Next year they want to 'mike' my camera for atmosphere, not sure about that cause my mutterings and cursings will also be miked!

[sharky]

My record is about 800 in a day at an airshow, but I'm wondering if the ability to just blast away with no thought of film costs is damaging my photographic skills. Back in the film days I would think carefully about each shot before pressing the shutter, knowing that I was dealing with a finite resource. Now I tend to shoot 10 or 15 frames of EVERYTHING, usually ending up with 10 or 15 slightly different versions of the same fairly mundane composition.

Recently I loaded up my 10D with an old 256 Mb card to deliberately limit my exposures, and I think I actually got a higher percentage of keepers...

[Wazza]

:eek:

Well I guess you will be able to let us know what the expected life of the shutter is sooner than the rest of us!

I have done around 1500max in a single day, the Saturday of a four day music festival. Part of it was a 'Trash Fasion' Parade, about 100 entrants, with multiple angles of each. Next year they want to 'mike' my camera for atmosphere, not sure about that cause my mutterings and cursings will also be miked!

No, because I'll get a 1D Mk III before my 20D dies. :p

[elbirth]

I haven't read through all of this thread yet... but a question for the people that take 500+ photos at a time, or thereabouts.

Do you just have multiple cards that you shoot to, and when you fill up one, you swap them out and just keep going until you go back home and dump all the cards to your computer, or do you have a portable storage device and only use 2-3 cards and just dump to that device while using another card?

The more I get into wanting to get photography jobs, the more I wonder which way I should go....



Oh yeah, my max so far I think is something like 200 or so... nowhere near some of you guys. But those have just been for personal stuff, like at Halloween and when we won the NCAA this year

[FlyingPete]

I haven't read through all of this thread yet... but a question for the people that take 500+ photos at a time, or thereabouts.

Do you just have multiple cards that you shoot to, and when you fill up one, you swap them out and just keep going until you go back home and dump all the cards to your computer, or do you have a portable storage device and only use 2-3 cards and just dump to that device while using another card?

The more I get into wanting to get photography jobs, the more I wonder which way I should go....



Oh yeah, my max so far I think is something like 200 or so... nowhere near some of you guys. But those have just been for personal stuff, like at Halloween and when we won the NCAA this year

I run two 1GB cards, with a portable 30GB hard disk (X'S-DriveII). I would love to have more 'field' space though, two 4GB cards would do nicely!

[MarkH]

I haven't read through all of this thread yet... but a question for the people that take 500+ photos at a time, or thereabouts.

Do you just have multiple cards that you shoot to, and when you fill up one, you swap them out and just keep going until you go back home and dump all the cards to your computer, or do you have a portable storage device and only use 2-3 cards and just dump to that device while using another card?

My idea of the ideal setup is to have enough cards to last all day, currently I have 4GB of CF cards (2 + 1 + .5 + .5) and never run out in a day (I usually shoot large fine JPG). If I shot RAW I would prefer to start with 2 of the 2GB CF cards and add more 2GB if required.

I also have a digital wallet with a 30GB HDD, this is handy for the times that I am away from my PC for more than a day. If I dump all my CF cards to HDD in the evening and charge all my batteries then I am ready for anything the next day.

[kenyc]

This past saturday between a rugby game and three softball games I shot about 375 (the limit of my 2 memory cards.) Time to buy more :)
Out of those there may be a couple of dozen "real" keepers and probably 100 keepers (maybe...) Still have to go through them carefully.

KAC

[LarrySilva]

1500 during an 6 hour model shoot

[jyrgen]

I've done about 800 frames one day, when on vacation in Italy. However, since those are cropped frames, they only equal to about 500 full frames :D

[Kees Terberg]

Ehhh, recently on a trip to Paris with a nice model... I used 1 x 2GB, 3 x 1GB cards and 5 x 512MB and had to go out and buy an extra 512mb card to finish the shoot... which took about 8 hours... Having just purchased the new 1D Mark II did not really help either and before anyone asks: I shot at Large JPG 10. I have no idea how many shots they were but it took a whole weekend to download them all...

[MazerRakhm]

Somewhere around 400ish was my max at the IHSA state finals at UofI last fall.

4 football games, the first two of which were played in the cold rain and wind, the last two were just plain cold and wind. Classic Chicago football weather, horrible photography weather.

[photoshooter]

give me a camera and give me moveing race cars im crazy i shoot till its over i never delete any of them good or bad it dont cost anything to keep them lol shot 2600 one day at a motocross im a firm believer the more you shoot the better chance of selling them on a fri night at the speedway i shoot photos i ave about 700 in 5 hrs and no not all are good lol

[GTogs]

About 350 on a day trip in Maui last fall.

[Raj]

My max was ~200 in a day. I ran out of cards after that. Now it is normally 30-40 shots a day. I find it very difficult to find keepers/discards/ok one's from a large bunch, so I try to limit my shots (offcourse this requires more efforts per shot ...)

[jimtfoto]

I haven't read through all of this thread yet... but a question for the people that take 500+ photos at a time, or thereabouts.

Do you just have multiple cards that you shoot to, and when you fill up one, you swap them out and just keep going until you go back home and dump all the cards to your computer, or do you have a portable storage device and only use 2-3 cards and just dump to that device while using another card?

The more I get into wanting to get photography jobs, the more I wonder which way I should go....



Oh yeah, my max so far I think is something like 200 or so... nowhere near some of you guys. But those have just been for personal stuff, like at Halloween and when we won the NCAA this year

Wife and I shot about 1200 frames last Sunday for a friend who was running a demonstration of his canoes and kayaks. We have three 512 mb cards, one 1gb card and a 30gb Flashtrax.

cheers,
jim

[Rob612]

About 600 during an IPSC match. Using only 2x1GB CF and a portable HD.

[Ausdig]

About 400 in one day when doing my Autumn collection recently. The colours were changing so fast it was essential to get them that weekend because the following weekend they had all changed, so back out again. :)


Nearly time for the winter collection to start.

Printed off about 30 of the very best and saved the rest to my harddrives.

To answer KennyG, yes I take a lot more than I would with film, but I also experiment a lot more than I could afford to with film as well.

I find now that with this level of experimentation I can afford to be a lot more critical of my work (even though I was already very critical) and believe I have improved.

[mikesd]

300-400 at weddings.

[Maureen Souza]

I shot 865 photos at my daughter's wedding, 182 shots earlier that morning of the girls getting their pedicures and getting dressed for the event, then 108 pictures the next day of various gift opening, pool party....not to metion the 154 photos I took the night before the wedding of the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. I still haven't even looked through them all but I guess I'll throw out a huge number before all is said and done! I doubt I will ever take that many photos again in under 40 hours!!

[ssim]

I set a new personal record a couple of weeks ago. I did a dance studio's year end show and was shooting with both the 1DMKII and the 20D and by the end of the night I had around 1500 RAW files. I have 16GB worth of cards but even at that I downloaded a couple of the cards to my laptop just in case I needed the extra space.

Now before someone questions my sanity on shooting this much in RAW. Yes, it was alot of post processing but well worth it. The extra ladititude that I got saved alot of shots that might not have been salvageable in JPG.

[jfrancho]

For live music, I get around 300 and I'm tired. There is a 10 - 20% yield. This number could be higher, but I'm not counting duplicates. Baseball games, I'm taking about 100, but many of these aren't typical "action" shots, so I could come away empty handed. When I'm trying something new, I may take 50 shots until I get it right. I asked my freelancer friend how many shots he took to get a keeper: on a good day, 3-5 rolls of film (30-50 exposures).

[eosnob]

At a recent sporting event notched up just over 3000 using 20D+300D, which is easily done when using continuous shot mode.

[CyberPet]

715 pictures on one day is my record, so far.

[aam1234]

1,000 in about two hours, then it got dark :D

[jray]

I've done ~2400 in one day, but that was only once. Normally a 'heavy' day is 1000-1200.

[johneo]

Most I've taken in a day? ... 675 with my 10D and 4 or 5 rolls of 36exp film with my 7ne during the local Air Show last June. The show is this weekend and the Blue Angels will be here so I will probably top that number for a single day.

My 10D will be 2 years old in a month and I'm just over 26,000 shots. I even have a keeper or two among them ... :lol: :lol: :lol:

[GreenGemini2000]

The most that I have ever shot, in a day, is about 225 and that was at a wedding reception.

[tombryan]

Most I've done is 1,100 at a wedding. Done it twice now. Out of 1,100 I'll deliver around 750. Way too many images, lol.

[neburns]

most i can remember is about 900 in a couple of hours :D

[arunchs]

I have dont somewhere around 120 in my digicam when my tiny 1 Gig CF card gets full :( Must have hardly managed arounf 50 a day in film days. 1000s in a day seems too much. It takes more time to sort the images on the comp than shooting itself, me thinks :)

[spoolin_photography]

About 1500 in one day I ended up taking just over 3000 photos over a 2-day drift championship

[mspringfield]

Hmmm.. Boy that's a tough one. My best guess would be around 26K in one weekend at a Cheer and Dance competition. Most dance competitions I get between 18 and 20K for the weekend.

Michael

[aam1234]

Hmmm.. Boy that's a tough one. My best guess would be around 26K in one weekend at a Cheer and Dance competition. Most dance competitions I get between 18 and 20K for the weekend.

Michael


:shock: :shock:

[Halliday]

I think about 500, shooting 5 models with my 10D on RAW that whole time. I know on one girl I filled my 2gig card.

[Ferdinand]

I think about 500, shooting 5 models with my 10D on RAW that whole time. I know on one girl I filled my 2gig card.

Generously built girl? Sorry can't help the pun :)

I am keeping note on you high clickers so that I won't buy any used camera from you guys hehehe

[Halliday]

Heh.... no :)

[Metalphotographer]

When I shoot live music I really burn through the frames on my 20d. At a 5 band bill the other night I shot 838 RAW images, not sure how many keepers yet but I generally average around 50 percent. My record was over 2000 at Ozzfest 2004, that was with my old Olympus 4040, I shot between 1500 and 1600 at the Northwest DeathFest on the 20D a couple months ago :)

On a related note I passed the 25,000 mark on my 20d the other night and I have only had the camera since December :)

[DwightMcCann]

Something over a 1000 at a boxing match ... well, actually eight matches! At live performance I usually shoot between 250 and 650. Keepers? Sometimes!

[jforget1]

About how many memory cards do most of you keep with you? I have a 1 gig card and a 256 mb card from a point and shoot camera. I am looking to get at least 1 more 1 gig card.

[ARTSPACE]

I shot the runners of the Nissan Buffalo marathon last year for Brightroom.com and shot almost 5,000 images with my 10D in about 3 hours. The camera was actually hot to the touch, but performed without a hitch.

[gmen]

I shot the runners of the Nissan Buffalo marathon last year for Brightroom.com and shot almost 5,000 images with my 10D in about 3 hours. The camera was actually hot to the touch, but performed without a hitch.

That is absolutely astounding... that's about one picture every 2 seconds... how did you find time to change memory cards??? and I'm assuming no time for any 'chimping'... *lol*

[johndm]

About how many memory cards do most of you keep with you? I have a 1 gig card and a 256 mb card from a point and shoot camera. I am looking to get at least 1 more 1 gig card.

1 x 1gig
4 x 512
4 x 256

[Metalphotographer]

About how many memory cards do most of you keep with you? I have a 1 gig card and a 256 mb card from a point and shoot camera. I am looking to get at least 1 more 1 gig card.

I carry two 2 gig CF cards and a 40 gig hard drive/card reader.

[jforget1]

I carry two 2 gig CF cards and a 40 gig hard drive/card reader.

What do you use for a mobile card reader?

[Croasdail]

For a major two day motor racing event, maybe 3,500 to 4,000 with two bodies.

More important, is how many of them do you:

a) Delete because they are OOF, off target, under/over exposed, etc.
b) Keep because they are really good shots, worthy of print or submission.
c) Keep because there is nothing wrong with them but they are nothing special.
d) Keep because you hate throwing anything away.

Do you take a lot in the hopes that, by the law of averages, you will get some good ones?

Would you have done the same with film?

Generally I shoot 1 or 2 one gig cards per event which equates out to between 400 and 800 shots. What I do with them....

a) depending on the conditions 10 to 40% are thrown away immediately
b) depends on what it is..... recent golf about 10%, Tennis & field sports 5 - 15% , and my worst is motorsport... probably < 5% (closer to 1%). These numbers are probably inflated as I shoot a lot of burst where if I get on good one - there are probably another 2 or 3 from the same burst.
c & d) Just about the rest I keep. I have a real hard getting ride of shots. I was just going back through my spring sport shots cleaning up my HD and found about 40 shots I had passed over were relatively good based on a different crop. I burn all my "non-throw away shots" to cd or dvd for storage every other week.

Going digital has raised my shot count enormously. electrons and cd's are cheap.

[ARTSPACE]

GMen, my memory of total # of shots is accurrate although my time line may be a bit off. It may have been 4 hours or so...I've shot so many events since then that I forget these things. My point was that I shot continuously for several hours and my camera performed flawlessly. We all had several 1 gig cards and extra batteries on hand and one person to take the cards and download to a laptop and return the cards. We were instructed to shoot in small fine so I get quite a few shots on a 1 gig card.

[djroga]

Small number, 877 actual shots, captured at least one shot of every member of a 145 membermarching band unit during a day long marching activity...all in the name of hobby, fun, and support.

Band hall has one complete wall covered in pictures since school was opened some seven years ago..

three walls to go from proud parents and supporters

[skyphix]

A Miniscule amount compared to some here - 286 (OR somewhere in that range) at a Hockey game.

[Laffctx]

I would say maybe, maybe, 200 and I'm not sure of that many.

[jforget1]

I did my personal best yesterday with 280 at the RI Air National Guard Air Show.

[Torpedo]

Went to my first airshow a couple of weeks back, and managed to take 461 photos!!

[rich_yau]

about 300 for my school yearbook an graduation day/night.

[jforget1]

Went to my first airshow a couple of weeks back, and managed to take 461 photos!!

Would of had that many but I had to leave early to go to a Father's day dinner. Missed the Blue Angels, would have liked to have seen them....been many many years.

[mtndew]

If i remember right it was about a year ago and shot 500 pix during the final time trail at the Denver Grand Prix. of the 500 shot i keep just out 1/3 of them. Need to practice panning. But i did get some great shots of tires.

[LONDON808]

Yes im digging up an old thread BUT i found this by mnistake and i want to awnser the question

17280 Thats one photo evvery 5 seconds for 24 hours, the total number of photos i took in that run was 48000 yes 48 thousand and if i rember corectly was almost 1TB in saved images

was for a timelapse project i was trying to do

[apersson850]

I took about 1650 photos of a racing event. About 80 of these ended up in my web album.

[Joemt]

Probably around the 1000 mark for me. There are some amazing numbers in this thread.

Joemt.

[rcollins09]

i snapped about 1500 one day driving the coast or ireland a few years back…took ALONG time to go through the 5000 plus i had from that trip!

[DiMAn0684]

I'm at about 400 photos / day for two events: Bronx Zoo trip and RI Air show.

[bubbygator]

At basketball tournaments I usually shoot ~100 shots/game, ~3 games/day, ~2 days = 600.... but I talked to a pro covering a National & he takes over 300/game, ~7 games/day, for 4 days = 8400 ---- he was really working!! He had one guy working his computer and multi-display booth and 1 guy selling to customers while he took pics.

[Rafal_BC]

4749 during one LONG wedding day (10am - 2:30am). About a 1000 of that is a remote-operated photobooth, so not sure that counts! Keepers, about 800 of the photobooth, 900-1100 wedding.

And yes, all RAW. (2x 1DII 1x 5Dc) I have 32GB of CF and 34GB of SD cards... I backup in-camera with the 1's.

[p32shooter]

1500 sunday at the dayton, oh airshow - would have been more but the thunderbirds show was cut to 10 air minutes by bad weather

only went sunday so sat would have added way more lol

[advaitin]

If I went back to when I was doing sports pictures, I may have done more than a 1000 in one day with three cameras. Just an estimate because all that is stored in disks--which reminds me it is probably time to recopy all that to BluRay DVD--gotta keep up with technology or images get trapped in unreadable media.

I know that I shot over 800 on two recital performances in one day. When I'm traveling and at an interesting location, I can go over 500 shots a day.

I shoot raw plus jpg on as large a set of memory cards as I can afford. Right now my big guns, the 1D series cameras are loaded with 32GB CF and SDHC cards--well, so are the little guns, come to think of it. My keeper rate is about 90 percent. I delete any blurry shot that doesn't have artistic value--feel free to chuckle here, purely subjective. On the other hand I print maybe one percent of my images, so there are a heck of a lot that are nice, but I am picky about what I might hang.

[Eric Xu]

I did 1252 shots one day when I happened to cover a sports event (none of the actual sports, interestingly enough) and band performance on the same day. Ran out of memory toward the end, otherwise I would've shot more. 121 keepers from the bunch.

[InterPlace55]

About 2000 during day 3 of Anime Expo, most of them coming from the Masquerade Show that night.

[IllegalFun]

I shot about 500 in one day...
I tend not to shoot more than 100 shots in one day though...