How many pictures do you take at WDW?

[brocklesnar69]

I wanted to try and get an adverage on how many pictures people take while at WDW. I will be there for twelve days and I love to take pictures of everything, for memories! I just bought a digital camera with a 2 GB memory card so it shows it now as being able to hold about 2200 pics. I hope I have enough ( )

 

[GrandFloridian4]

When we used to live in another state & vacation here, I would bring around 8 rolls of 36 exp. film each time I came & sometimes have to buy another roll or two & we have thousands & thousands of pictures of everything around WDW --- a lot of the same things, just at a different time.

It sounds like you may have enough!!

 

[mickeysgirl17]

I think I'm going to do the same thing brocklesnar69. I want to take a lot of pictures. My boyfriend was thinking of getting 1 GB but I don't think thats enough.

 

[WillCAD]

My picture taking has increased a LOT since I went digital. I average 75-100 pics per day, with more when I'm at AK (I snap continuously on Kilamanjaro Safari!) and more at MouseFest (I snap continuously at meets!)

I recommend that you download your pics from memory card to CD every couple of days as a backup, just in case something happens to your camera or your card. You can do this at any of the camera shops in the 4 theme parks for $12.99 per CD, limit 120 pics per CD, or if you have a car you can do it at any Walgreens store in teh WDW area for $3.99 per CD, for as many pics as the CD will hold.

 

[Star Wars Guy]

Since I started using a digital for the past 6 trips, I've averaged between 450 - 550 per trip. For me, that's a lot of pictures to be taking. When we've gone for 'special' events such as MVMCP and Star Wars Weekend, I take more (close to the 550 end.) I agree with previous poster that I pretty much have everything just a different times. Since my daughter is in a majority of the pictures, we can watch her grow.

I only use a 1 GB card too and always have plenty of room.

 

[Laralyn]

I enjoy taking pictures at WDW, but new camera gadgets are the bribe I give to my boyfriend every year. He usually takes at least a couple hundred pictures a day!

We take a laptop computer with us for checking email and downloading images at night. You can get used or low-end laptops pretty cheaply now, and it really comes in handy in the hotel room for emailing images to friends/family and looking up flight information for the trip home.

 

[phantom728]

On our last official WDW trip in 2002, I took about 1200 digital pictures. We have 2 digital cameras, one is a Sony Mavica (which we used that trip), which burns right to a small CD and depending on the photo size can hold 200-400 pics per disk. Other other is the Kodak Easyshare, which has the memory cards (I have several sized cards). This trip, I will take both cameras and our laptop to store our memory card photo's each night.

I scrapbook, so tend to take lots of pictures, then utilize the best ones. Sometimes it drives DH and DD insane because I'll take 2 or 3 photo's to make sure I get the one I want . I told them I'll try not to be some compulsive this trip, but make no promises .

 

[BLUEAPPLE422]

Anywhere from 800 - 1000. Call me crazy but I think I need another 1GB card. That will give me another 824 pictures (I must be obsessed)

 

[joshsmom]

I still haven't gone to a digital camera!!! I am SO behind the times. I used 10 rolls of 24 exposures last year and about 5 rolls of 36. I can't do the math right now--I'm too tired.

 

[handicap18]

This question gets asked a lot over on the photography board. There are a lot of variables that go towards answering this question. What kind of camera you have (more specifically how many megapixels it has), what your picture taking habits are, what kind of resolution you use to name a few.

If you can fit approx 2200 on a 2 gig card, then I'm guessing that you have about a 3.1MP camera and are using the highest setting. Thats pretty good. It gives you about 300 or so pics per day.

2 Trips ago I filled a 512mg and 128mg card on my 3.1MP digital P&S camera and also took 4 rolls of film with my film SLR camera. Last trip (no kids and I made it a photography based trip) I had upgraded to a 6MP digital SLR and in 4 days took just under 1500 pics. I had 3 1 gig cards, fill all 3 then downloaded 1 to the laptop and filled it again. I got on average 330 pic's per card.

Taking a laptop and downloading to it daily is an option. Using the CD burner service at the parks is another option if you get in a pinch near the end of your trip. On a topic in the photography board, someone posted this cool toy, used in conjuction with a laptop hard drive: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=A-DPM1&cpc=SCH .

Or another option to make sure you have enough memory is to buy more memory. Prices have come and are continuing to come down considerably in recent months. Buy.com has GREAT prices (especially for SD cards). I just picked up a SanDisk 2 gig SD card at Office Depot for $45. In my opinion, you can never have enough memory, especially for vacation and most especially for Disney.

 

[MelanieC]

For our 17 day trip in July/August 2006 I ended up with somewhere between 3746 good pictures. I brought my laptop with me and downloaded them each night. It really allowed me to be able to freely take pictures of whatever I wanted.

The day we did the hot air balloon trip I took over 800 alone between the span of 6am and 9am. The final number of pictures I ended up with does not take into account how many I actually took. I deleted tons each night when I would review them on my laptop. I also take a lot of duplicate pictures because I find that many end up blurry because of movement, closed eyes, etc.

Last year during our 16 night vacation I took a lot less (still tons) but I had a 256mb & 512mb card. I still had a lot of pictures, but I had to be selective and started to delete at the end of the trip. This year was much better because I could take as many as I wanted to. Sometimes I took abstract type pictures just to see if I could come up with some interesting photo's.

 

[brocklesnar69]

This question gets asked a lot over on the photography board. There are a lot of variables that go towards answering this question. What kind of camera you have (more specifically how many megapixels it has), what your picture taking habits are, what kind of resolution you use to name a few.

If you can fit approx 2200 on a 2 gig card, then I'm guessing that you have about a 3.1MP camera and are using the highest setting. Thats pretty good. It gives you about 300 or so pics per day.

2 Trips ago I filled a 512mg and 128mg card on my 3.1MP digital P&S camera and also took 4 rolls of film with my film SLR camera. Last trip (no kids and I made it a photography based trip) I had upgraded to a 6MP digital SLR and in 4 days took just under 1500 pics. I had 3 1 gig cards, fill all 3 then downloaded 1 to the laptop and filled it again. I got on average 330 pic's per card.

Taking a laptop and downloading to it daily is an option. Using the CD burner service at the parks is another option if you get in a pinch near the end of your trip. On a topic in the photography board, someone posted this cool toy, used in conjuction with a laptop hard drive: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=A-DPM1&cpc=SCH .

Or another option to make sure you have enough memory is to buy more memory. Prices have come and are continuing to come down considerably in recent months. Buy.com has GREAT prices (especially for SD cards). I just picked up a SanDisk 2 gig SD card at Office Depot for $45. In my opinion, you can never have enough memory, especially for vacation and most especially for Disney.

No. Its a 5 Megapixl HP digital Camera. It only advertised holding about 800-1000 pics, but when I put it in it said I had like 2293 pic. So I took about 8 pics of my dog to test it and the pics went from 2293 to 2285. So Im assuming that is how many pictures it will take. Its my first digital camera... it is so complicated. I've only had it for about two days.

My goal is to take pictures of everything!

My Disney Hotel room!
Where I eat (Every meal )
Every park (rides included)

So Im thinking that Im gunna have alot of pics!

 

[BamaFan121s]

Hmmm...about 6 or 7 24-exp rolls. My mom takes about the same amount, then we get double prints and swap so by the time all is said and done, I have one set of about 14 24-exp rolls. lol...300+ pictures.

 

[Jozymouse]

Just came back from 11 days in the world and took about 1500 plus bought the Photopass CD with around 250 pictures on there. Of course, please consider that my sis and I are character crazy so we take MANY pics of characters in person, in shows and in the parade. And we also did 2 MNSSHP and we took ALOT of pictures there!!!!

 

[DestinationDisney]

I wanted to try and get an adverage on how many pictures people take while at WDW. I will be there for twelve days and I love to take pictures of everything, for memories! I just bought a digital camera with a 2 GB memory card so it shows it now as being able to hold about 2200 pics. I hope I have enough ( )

WOW! 2200 pictures!!

My 2 GB memory card only gives me about 400 or so pictures. I wonder why?

 

[oogie boogie]

Last Dec I took amost 600 shots. But I also took about 12 hours of video! Ha! Crazy huh?

 

[M 'n C]

hmm you might want to check on your settings with the camera because I have a 5MP camera and my 2 GB holds 1440 pics. I used about 632 pictures on my last trip. I am on the 2nd of the highest settings for pictures on my camera. The photo board can help you figure out if you are on the highest or a middle or even a low setting and how to adjust.

 

[lbarnes]

This is most likely due to the resolution setting you have. I have a 256 mg card, and if set on the "normal" settings for 4x6 prints, I can get 880 or so pictures. If I bump the resolution up to the best setting, it goes down to 100-something. I get great pictures when set at the normal settings.

And ... on our last trip, I took 445 in 4 days. On the morning of the 5th day (half way thru our trip), I dropped my digital camera, and couldn't use it for the rest of the trip. I sent it in to the company, paid them $$, and they fixed it. Had to rely on disposable cameras for the rest of the trip, and they just weren't the same quality. Imagine how many I could've taken if I hadn't dropped my camera!

 

[phanomouse]

I take on average 3000 pictures between 3 different cameras. I usually take about 500 High Res pictures on one 2 GB SD card. On our other cameras we take the rest at between 3 and 4 megapixels. If you lower the resolution it is definately possible to get 2200 pictures on a 2 GB card.

 

[disneydad1013]

My last trip, Aug 06, I purchased a 1GB card and I shot about 300 pictures.