About how many pictures do you take?

[HollyJoy]

Just curious as to how many pictures (on average) you take while in WDW! I'm planning on taking TONS. I'll have a big scrapbooking adventure when we get back! LOL

[vicnmickey]

I average two rolls per day and then I like to take 800 speed film for the night time parades and fireworks. I have the film packed already for this trip. I am soooooooooo ready to go!!!!!

[cobbler]

Last time I was there I think I was about 6 -7 rolls with 25 each roll.

This time I got a new digital camera and I got a 256mb chip so I can hold around 270 pics!!

:p

[EmmasGrammy]

For a one week trip we take 12 rolls of 35 mm. 24 exp. film. I buy 4 rolls of 800 speed and 8 rolls of 400 speed. DH takes his digital camera with 3 extrra memory cards.

We take tons of pictures too!!!

[Bete]

I've acquired a lot of memory cards through the years; so, I just keep going and going. I've done as much as 1000 pictures when I have my laptop with me to download pics off my cards; so, I can keep on going.

I like to video, too. Lately, I'm more into it because of M-PEG 2 encoding which is better quaility then VHS.

I don't even mind doing the same thing over and again because I feel I might get something I missed the last time or a better picture this time, etc.

[ligirlz]

Me too I took about 1400 pics total from my last trip last month. Digital cameras are great and hold alot. I also took a laptop so i could download afterwards which helped alot. There is just so much to take but I didn't realize we took that much. LOL.

[Kaycee]

Well, before we got the digital camera we took about 4 rolls of pictures each trip. With the digital camera, we take around 60-80 pictures a day! :eek: Of course, we don't make prints of all those. But that's the beauty of a digital camera. We can shoot as many pictures as we want and decide later which ones we want to get prints of. We burn a CD of all the rest so that we can still look at them when we want.

DH's memory card holds about 100 pictures. We download the pictures from each day onto the laptop that evening, and we're ready to go again the next day! :cool:

[niks81]

Well, I have only used film cameras at Disney because I didn't have a digi cam yet. I'd say on average I had about 4 rolls or so. But then I go back and review the videos and I am able to take digi pics with my camcorder from the footage....so I literally have hundreds :teeth:

[zuly]

...in the past years I took like 10 rolls of 40 pictures each with our regular cam :hyper:
...now we got two digitals and a few memor cards that holds like 270 each and we are planning on bringing the laptop so go figure we are freaks:thewave:
...planing on taking alot of pictures...:earseek:

Wishing to see a lot of lime green on July ::yes:: ::yes:: ::yes::

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[floridagirrl2]

None! Believe it or not, we haven't even brought a camera on our 4 recent trips to WDW. We do have a photo taken in a photo booth at MGM and one taken just inside the gates at AK by one of the roving photographers.

[disneyjunkie]

I took 400 pictures during our Easter trip.

[crow11ad]

Well with our digital camera it records on to a cd. So our last trip we took close to 500 not including 11 tapes for the video camera. DW took the pics, I took the video. It was pretty cool and magical.

[Billmel]

Our card on our digital holds 195 pictures, and we are bringing our laptop to download every night. Planning on a big scrapbook I guess, that way the Disney withdrawals won't be so bad.

[d96j97]

Just a quick question for all you digital camera people? Once you print them...do they really look as good as a 35mm picture? I know when you download them on a computer they look great but how about when you print them?

We are picture freaks also!!! We average about 15 rolls per trip and we haven't moved into digital pictures yet but have strongly looked at them the last few weeks. We are just trying to learn about mega pixels and such.

Thanks for the input...

Oh my goodness...we are leaving Saturday!!!! Yipee!!!


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[Bete]

The higher end digital cameras are as good if not better then 35mm, now. Even with mid-end cameras you can do a real good job up to 5 X 7. A lot of what you print is dependent on the photo paper you use, how much time you do in editing pictures for red-eye, etc. and most important the mega-pixels for your pictures. The more the megapixels the better the picture will look.

If you have at least a 5-megapixel camera, then you really don't have too many limits on size of pic. You can go up to 14 X 11 and most people won't go beyond that size.

The beauty of a digital camera has to do with being able to get rid of bad pictures as you shoot and most importantly never printing a bad picture afterwards because you can see each shot ahead of time. You bring in a roll of film and you can have good or bad pictures. You really don't know until you get it developed. The sad part is you are paying for bad or good. Also, the shot you thought was perfect may not be but it's too late, now.

[Ratpack]

In 2002, we took 14 rolls of film at 25exp each for a total of 350. In 2003 we went digital and got 370 photos.Our current Digi Cam will allow us to take 416 photos at 5MP, so we have increased each year. I hope to take all 416 this trip, however, if I have access to a laptop (job dependent) then I probably will take even more. Digital is great, just come home and burn them on CD and then when people want to see them, just pop into the DVD player and watch. No albums to fumble with or store. Then you can just print our what you want to use in frames or scrapbooking.

[d96j97]

Wow!!! Thanks so much for your input. Your information was great even in comparison of what you might get a salesman to tell you. Hate to ask, but what brand would you recommend? Sounds like you have been using yours for a while.

[Bete]

with a brand name recognized in cameras. Brand names that can be trusted are Nikon, Olympus, and Canon to name a few. My camera of choice is Nikon and I will probably never waiver from that choice. Of course, these name brands are going to be more expensive especially with the newest models. Nikon was in on digital almost at the very beginning; so, they are hard to beat, now.

Anyone first buying a camera now is very lucky because prices have come down quite a bit like plasma TV and flat screen monitors. This opens the door to get a better camera that would have been extremely expensive 2 to 3 years ago.

I would never start lower then 3 megapixel, now especially if you plan on doing any hard copy prints. 5 megapixel cameras were $1200 and higher less then a year ago and now you can get a name brand in the $600s. Nikon 5700 Coolpix camera had excellent ratings all along and it's still holding it's own. I'm sure others can share their choices. Nikon now has a point and shoot that's an 8 megapixel called the 8700 Coolpix. This is costing around $999 retail, right now. This model looks very close to the 5700 only it has more megapixels. What's nice about the higher end point and shot cameras is that you can buy a few lenses as additional acessories; so, you can pretty well be covered for all circumstances.

There are digital cameras on the very high end that can be retrofitted with most all the lenses available for 35mm camaras. These cameras are usually not for the amateur and they can easily set you back at least $2000 and can go up to $14000 for the professional ones, if not more.

This is the first year by the way that digital cameras have sold more then a regular 35mm camera. Digital cameras will take over in the long run as a camera of choice in the future for amateurs and and even above to the quasi-pro.

I think it's a wonderful time to get a digital camera if you haven't taken the plunge yet.

[DISNEYFAMILYOFFOUR]

On our last trip (seven nights), I took 13 rolls of 24, my husband used a ditigal taking about 200 pictures, and we purchased at east 15 pictures from WDW.

[oogieboogie]

I average about 100-150 pics per day. Not all will get printed. Only a few will get that honor. Some will get deleted and some will just be for slideshows.

[jpd3]

I am a big fan of the digital cameras and will normally take around 100 pix a day. I have a Sony 5 megapixel with a 8x optical and 2x digital zoom. I like the memory sticks as they are compatible with all the rest of my Sony devices. My last trip I had 1.2gigabytes of pictures that I downloaded onto the computer. Over 600 pictures.

The ability to print what you want and manipulate pictures for scrapbooking and printing is the best benefit I can see. I also take my favorite pix and put them in "My picture" in Windows and then set that to scroll through for my computer screen saver. My kids love to sit and watch all the pix and talk about their memories from the trips. Just a little touch of Disney pixie dust everyday helps me get through!

[dcg0317]

I took my digital cmaera that uses min cd disk, and took over 700 pictures, it also takes video and used a few disk for that. My son used my point and shoot 35mm camera and took about 7 rolls of film. Of all the pictures taken I had 400 of them printed up but still have the others on the disk and picked out my favorites and use as a screen saver.

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[ontariodisneywoman]

The last trip we took, Nov 2003, I took over 700 pictures on my digital camera, I have printed about 100 of them so far and have sent many of them, about 90% to family or friends via email.

[Mickpat]

During my family's last vacation to Disney World, I forgot to download my photos from my digital camera to my laptop before leaving Ft. Wilderness. I was left with 4 pictures for the entire day.

I didn't want to go back to the cabin so I went to buy a new memory stick. I went to the photo center on Main Street and learned, they now offer a kiosk where you can burn your photos to CD from your memory stick, and other popular memory formats.

I spent $12.95 to create a CD of my pictures and was off enjoying the rest of my day in 15 minutes. Now I take as many pictures as I want and don't worry about filling my memory card.

Michael

[HollyJoy]

jpd3... I have a Sony 5.0 megapixel camera too.. the Cybershot. The zoom isn't that great, but other than that, I love the camera. Like you mentioned, the memory stick also can be used in our video camera!!

[grimgrinnin]

My first trip with a new digital camera, I took over 2,000 images. :earsboy:


Here's the best of them (http://www.pbase.com/grimgrinnin/wdw_nye_2002) .

I only took about 1,000 when I went on my cruise a year later.

Here they are (http://www.pbase.com/grimgrinnin/disney_cruise) .

I tend to take multiple pictures of the same thing, and choose the best one. Having a laptop or portable storage device helps immensly.

grim pirate:

[slo]

On the average for a six day trip I use approx. 12 rolls of 35 mm film w/ 24 photos on them. We also take and use our digital camera and our DVD camcorder.

I love taking photos and I thought I was the only person that went overboard on the pictures. That is why I love the DIS so much, because as soon as I think I am to the Disney extreme - I read something on here that makes me realize that there are so many other people like me out there.

[sm4987]

I come back with 300-500 at least on my digital camera. Plus our camcorder.

[CarrieAP]

Wow- and my girls think I take a lot of pictures! Very jealous of all your digital cameras. Not in our budget this year, so will need to rely on my trusty little Olympus 35mm. Very excited though to try out our brand-new camcorder that replaced our 10 year-old model that died.

I am now very inspired and will make it my mission to get some great shots this trip. Guess I'll need to grab more film before we leave on Friday.

Hmmm, just had a thought. My mother is not going with us this time so perhaps she would loan her digital camera?? Will have to find a way to sweeten the deal. Hand over your camera while you watch our dog and hamsters for us might not go over too well.

[StarWarsMan]

PhotobearSam here answering on my DH's sig...It's his computer.

1245 pics on our first trip (11 days) all on film....

Now with the digital...I would guess 2000...give or take a few.

We take on average 160 per card and up to 2 cards a day on a nice long day...::yes::

[moinab]

We are very bad about taking pictures. We always have our digital camera with us, but we rarely think to pull it out. Sometimes we'll take 80-100 pictures in a weekend (but less than half are keepers), but more often it's less than 30 (again, keeping less than half). Last time, we took 3. :rolleyes:



HollyJoy-

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