Ten years of digital photography
Gary Edstrom
my first digital camera: A Kodak DC-265
At only 1.5MP, it was definitely no match for a 35mm camera, but it was
a start and I had a lot of fun with it.
For some reason, I only saved 19 of the first 100 pictures I took. I
saved 84 of the second 100 pictures. Since then, I have saved every
single picture I have ever taken. I keep off-site backups of
everything.
Here is a summary of all of the pictures I have taken with my various
digital cameras.
Kodak DC-265: 5,117 (1.5MP)
Olympus E-10: 17,744 (4 MP)
Canon 20D: 12,772 (8 MP)
Canon SD550: 5,091 (7.1 MP) (My current P&S camera)
Canon 50D: 1,052 (14.4 MP) (My current DSLR camera)
Total: 41,776
For comparison, in all the 27 years I used my 35mm film camera starting
in 1974, I only took a total of 2,859 pictures. That's 14.6 times as
many pictures in a little over a third as much time.
Sure, they are not all masterpieces. That was not the point. My
primary idea is to create memories. I was always disappointed that my
father had so few pictures of the back woods cabin he grew up in in
Michigan. He only had 4 B&W pictures that all showed the cabin from the
same general view from about 1920. I was determined that the same was
not going to happen with my mother's house that she lived in for 40
years before she died. Over the years, I have taken over 1,800 images
inside and out from every view conceivable. I also shot a number of
close ups of a number of objects in the house. I also photographed the
neighborhood in detail. Sure, I may have gone overboard, but I don't
think that anyone in the future will say that they wished they had more
pictures of the place.
I wonder how many images I will have in another 10 years?
Gary
Frank Deux
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> Sure, they are not all masterpieces. That was not the point. My
> primary idea is to create memories. I was always disappointed that my
> father had so few pictures of the back woods cabin he grew up in in
> Michigan. He only had 4 B&W pictures that all showed the cabin from the
> same general view from about 1920. I was determined that the same was
> not going to happen with my mother's house that she lived in for 40
> years before she died. Over the years, I have taken over 1,800 images
> inside and out from every view conceivable. I also shot a number of
> close ups of a number of objects in the house. I also photographed the
> neighborhood in detail. Sure, I may have gone overboard, but I don't
> think that anyone in the future will say that they wished they had more
> pictures of the place.
>
> I wonder how many images I will have in another 10 years?
>
> Gary
Yeah, I do the same (although I am quite picky what I keep). At the time,
they maybe just normal photos, but even boring photos can become fascinating
in time.
For example, an old photo of a street where you used to live is interesting
just to see the old cars people used to drive, or an old photo of a living
room, with an old fashioned TV, furniture, etc. People's fashion, haircuts,
buildings that no longer exist, etc... At the time they were taken, they
were just 'normal' everyday photos.
Morton
I just found a trove of 40-50 year old pix in my basement, and what
wonderful memories they brought to mind. I'm so glad that they were
taken. Similarly, there are many paintings in The Netherlands which are
quite accurate in detail, and reveal what life was like several hundred
years ago. Even specific foods can be identified. Enjoy your hobby, and
keep up the good work.
Regards,
Morton
Paul Bartram
"Gary Edstrom" <GEds...@PacBell.Net> wrote
> For comparison, in all the 27 years I used my 35mm film camera starting
> in 1974, I only took a total of 2,859 pictures. That's 14.6 times as
> many pictures in a little over a third as much time.
This current generation will be the first fully documented one in history.
I'm talking here of the ordinary person in the street - there are plenty of
archived shots of wealthy people going back to the dawn of photography, they
could afford it.
Thanks to my brother back in England, I now have about 30 pictures of him
and/or me when we were small fry scanned and saved on my computer. Compare
that to what most families have of their children now!
Paul
David J Taylor
> May 18th will mark 10 years since I took my first digital picture with
> my first digital camera: A Kodak DC-265
>
> At only 1.5MP, it was definitely no match for a 35mm camera, but it
> was a start and I had a lot of fun with it.
> Gary
I celebrated last year, Gary. My first was with the swivel-bodied Nikon
Coolpix 900 (which I still have) - 1.23Mpix - taken on 8 July 1998. I had
used other digitals before then, but they didn't have more than 1Mpix
resolution, and I considered them toys. You don't want to know the price
of the 30MB CF cards I used probably $100 each.
Cheers,
David
Caesar Romano
<GEds...@PacBell.Net> wrote Re Ten years of digital photography:
>I wonder how many images I will have in another 10 years?
Probably 9,356,937
Alfred Molon
1.3MP Olympus C1400.
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mcescher
I was just thinking about this the other day. I'm at 9 years, and my
first camera was 640x480. What is that, like 0.8 MP, hehehe. Cell
phones are well past that now! I did see an article on TV about a
year ago that said we're losing some of our history because it is so
easy to delete the "bad ones".
Thanks for the good memories,
Chris M.
Paul Furman
> May 18th will mark 10 years since I took my first digital picture with
> my first digital camera: A Kodak DC-265
> I wonder how many images I will have in another 10 years?
The year 2000 for me with an Oly 3MP P&S for $800.
So far in 2009 I've got 2,600 jpegs (keepers) so that'll be about
6,000/year which would be 60,000 in 10 years.
Here's since I started posting on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgehill/archives/
At first I only posted a few select shots, now I post almost everything.
That only shows 729 this year so about 30% of the 6,000/year estimated
above, so 20,000 pics in 10 years. I haven't deleted much though, the
'seconds' folders are at least as many, often much more than keepers.
> Here is a summary of all of the pictures I have taken with my various
> digital cameras.
> ...
> Total: 41,776
>
> For comparison, in all the 27 years I used my 35mm film camera starting
> in 1974, I only took a total of 2,859 pictures. That's 14.6 times as
> many pictures in a little over a third as much time.
Heh, no way I have a count on that. One full plastic storage bin full of
drug store prints, mostly uninteresting hobby distractions, a fat binder
of nice mostly travel slides in archival plastic sleeves in that box and
another less full box of hobby/art super-8 movies. I don't have a single
photo left from my childhood Polaroid SX-70 :-( My mother did keep a
nice large box of family photos though and I scanned (roughly) a couple
hundred of my faves from that several years ago. Dad was a
photojournalist before my time, and mom, a commercial artist, so lots &
lots of photos, many good captures too. I've been neglectful about
personal photos but am more aware of their value after digging through
the old family photo box.
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John Turco
Hello, David:
I ordered my original digicam, in December of 2000, and snapped my first
pictures with it, on January 6, 2001. It was a lowly Largan "Lmini 350"
that "featured" a mere 350,000 pixels of resolution, and even lacked an
LCD viewfinder!
Since then, I've added about ten more "point and shoot" cameras and a
DSLR (Pentax K100D)...not to mention, a few tiny "key cams."
Altogether, I've taken around 17,000 photos, but have only printed a
relative handful. My prime enjoyment comes from seeing them, on my PC
monitor.
Thus, I'm appraoching eight and a half years of digital photography.
It's far easier and much cheaper than film ever was, and has enabled
me to make this decade the best "chronicled" one in my lifetime.
Cordially,
John Turco <jt...@concentric.net>
MaryL
"John Turco" <jt...@concentric.net> wrote in message
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My first digital camera was a Nikon Coolpix 880 (3.34 Mpix), purchased for a
trip to Alaska. My most recent ones are a Nikon D80 and a Nikon P80 (the
P80 is very small and is used when it isn't practical to carry the weight of
the D80 and its lenses, or even one lens).
Like you, I have thousands of photos but only print a few. I look at a lot
of them that I have categorized on my PC.
MaryL
Chris H
<GEds...@PacBell.Net> writes
>May 18th will mark 10 years since I took my first digital picture with
>my first digital camera: A Kodak DC-265
>
>At only 1.5MP, it was definitely no match for a 35mm camera, but it was
>a start and I had a lot of fun with it.
That got me thinking too
I had a small Fuji that did 800*600 late 1990's
Kodak DC120 that had a whole MEGA PIXEL (wow! :-) about 2000
Fuji S7000 Zoom 6Mp (about 2002)
Nikon D70s 6Mp(2005)
Nikon D300 12Mp (2008)
Like others I took fewer 35mm pictures partly because of cost. I have
taken a lot more with the digital cameras in a much shorter time.
I don't think, as some suggest the quality of the pictures has gone down
with quantity, in fact the opposite. I take more and can experiment more
so I understand the camera better. Also I carry the camera more often
and can now afford to take more pictures.
After I moved to the Fuji S7000 and could get reasonable quality
pictures and I could get good results without a dark room my [digital]
photography took off again. I don't think I have used a film camera
since about 2001.
The lack of a dark room was a major problem for doing much with (35mm)
photography. Now I can take photos and process them in the "dark room"
on a laptop over a coffee anywhere I like. This has also meant it is
easier to do more.
SO I got back in to photography with the Fuji S7000 (the Kodak was used
for photos for a web site for my sons team when 19200 dial up was the
way we connected to the Internet and WWW was still relatively new )
From the Fuji S7000 the Nikon D70S was where things really got going. I
had been shooting RAW on the Fuji but the Nikon was a proper SLR system
and I could change lenses.... Due to a good year in 2008 I grabbed a
D300 and that will be it for a long while
The D300 can do more than I ever could with a 35mm camera and the D70 is
a good backup. A G4 Powerbook and a G5 with Photo shop give me far more
creativity than I will ever need this side of heaven. I see no need to
go for an FX or more than 12Mp I will rarely, if ever, want an image
larger than A3. SO I think I am sorted.
I think most people will now start to keep DSLR's in the same way they
carried the same 35mm for years.
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John Turco
<heavily edited for brevity>
> > I ordered my original digicam, in December of 2000, and snapped my first
> > pictures with it, on January 6, 2001. It was a lowly Largan "Lmini 350"
> > that "featured" a mere 350,000 pixels of resolution, and even lacked an
> > LCD viewfinder!
> >
> > Since then, I've added about ten more "point and shoot" cameras and a
> > DSLR (Pentax K100D)...not to mention, a few tiny "key cams."
> >
> > Altogether, I've taken around 17,000 photos, but have only printed a
> > relative handful. My prime enjoyment comes from seeing them, on my PC
> > monitor.
> >
> > Thus, I'm appraoching eight and a half years of digital photography.
> > It's far easier and much cheaper than film ever was, and has enabled
> > me to make this decade the best "chronicled" one in my lifetime.
<edited>
> My first digital camera was a Nikon Coolpix 880 (3.34 Mpix), purchased for a
> trip to Alaska. My most recent ones are a Nikon D80 and a Nikon P80 (the
> P80 is very small and is used when it isn't practical to carry the weight of
> the D80 and its lenses, or even one lens).
>
> Like you, I have thousands of photos but only print a few. I look at a lot
> of them that I have categorized on my PC.
>
> MaryL
Hello, Mary:
My initial upgrade (from the Lmini 350) was a Kodak DC3200, obtained in
February, 2002. This 1-megapixel puppy proved to be a large improvement
over the Largan, where overall image quality was concerned. (Colors were
far more vivid and accurate, with the Kodak, for instance.)
Cordially,
John Turco <jt...@concentric.net>
John Turco
<heavily edited for brevity>
> After I moved to the Fuji S7000 and could get reasonable quality
> pictures and I could get good results without a dark room my [digital]
> photography took off again. I don't think I have used a film camera
> since about 2001.
<edited>
Hello, Chris:
I must have taken more that a thousand photos, in the eighties...with the vast
majority of those, coming between 1984-'86.
Alas, I shot my last film, way back in March of 2003, and it was a crummy 110
cartridge, at that. My previous picture-snapping "spree" occurred during 1990,
when I'd used a few rolls of 35mm.
As a result, the decade of the nineties was my least "documented" one. Digital
has allowed me to reverse this trend, in the new millennium.
Cordially,
John Turco <jt...@concentric.net>