How many Pictures...

[NeverSayNever]

Ok, we are off on Friday for our first trip to the world... and with my relatively new Canon XT... I love pictures... always say that if the house is on fire after all of us and the pets are safe the next thing I would want are our pictures...

Ok, I digress,

I think I keep underestimating the nubmer of pictures we will take... and worry about not enough memory cards...

So tell me, on average how many pictures do you take at the world? (we are going for 5 days)

Thanks!

 

[safetymom]

Just remember to take your pictures at the highest setting allowed on your camera.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Came home with 4500 (after throw aways) from an 8 night trip a few weeks ago.

Have a great time! And definitely share when you get back!

 

[We-Luv-Disney]

On our last WDW trip i snapped about 800 pics in five nights. In previous trips I have shot up to 2200. Have fun on you trip!!

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I usually average about 500 RAW shots per day or roughly 5 gig. I usually bring two 8 gig cards with me on any given day so that I don't have to worry about space. I dump everything to a laptop each night and burn the photos to DVDs. That allows me to start fresh and clean each morning.

 

[tchan03]

We took about 400 raw shots when visited Disney wedding trip (5 days)

 

[YEKCIM]

About 2600 shots (Large/Fine JPEG) from four days in the parks and one evening at DTD. Digital doesn't cost anything, so don't scrimp. You can always delete the crummy ones.

~YEKCIM

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I should have mentioned above that the 4500 were from both me and my DH taking pictures.

However, last year on a 10 night trip I did have about 3300 on my own. I later lost most of them when our laptop crashed before we'd burned them to disc (it overheated when I was using it in bed). Luckily I was able to retrieve some of them off the hard drive, and I'd already uploaded a few hundred of the better ones to an online photo site for a book I was doing, but other than that, the ones we did get back were kind of messed up with lines in them and such.

Mark, do you keep a laptop just for pictures? How do you store them permanently?

 

[Nikel]

Judging by other vacations I've taken, I figure I'll take 400-500 a day. Probably a bit less the first and last day, since they won't be full days. So maybe around 2500-3000 total. Not counting the photo shoot I'm doing for a friend that lives in Orlando while I'm there. I have 10gbs of memory I carry with me, and I'll transfer to the computer every evening.

 

[DVC Jen]

Wow and I thought I had taken a lot of pictures. We were there for 11 nights in June and I took 2,498 - I took several shots of each "subject" making sure I got at least one good shot. So when I went through them all - I think I ended up keeping about 600.

I probably would have taken more - but was starting to get some not so kind looks from my family.

Maybe if I were taking more photos of THEM they would have been more understanding.

Do you have something you can unload your photos too at the end of each day? A laptop maybe? That is what we did so I didn't have to take as many cards.

 

[NeverSayNever]

Hmmm... I definately don't have enough memory... and I am not going to have a laptop at my disposal...

So, do I try and run and buy at least one more card today (we leave tomorrow) or do I use the service at Disney to download them to disc?

Also, I have been unsing the Sandisk Extreme III... anyone know if the preformance will be noticeable less if I pick up an Ultra III?

Thoughts?

Thanks!

 

[Steve's Girl]

For our last trip, it was was just me and DH for 3 1/2 days. I had 9 gig of memory and had to use jpeg for a lot of my photos or I would have run out of memory shooting RAW. However, my camera is 10mp and is a memory hog. I have both the Extreme III and Ultra II cards. I don't notice a difference between the two in the camera, but do notice a difference when downloading photos. In the camera, I do notice a difference with both over the standard cards. With an XT, I'm not sure you would benefit from an Extreme III card over an Ultra II since I don't think your camera can write that fast. My D80 can write slightly faster than the Ultra II cards, but not quite as fast as the Extreme III. May want to check your manual.

 

[handicap18]

It all depends on your picture taking habits. My first trip to WDW back in my film days I took 6 rolls of 24 exposure film (4 days, just DW and myself). 2nd trip with a digital PnS and my film SLR I took 550+ digital and 3 rolls of 24 exposure film (7 nights, DW, myself 2 kids, my mother and my in-laws). Last trip was again just DW and myelf. Went with just my dSLR and in 4 days/3 nights I took 1400 pictures. Granted I had been a regular member of this board for a good 6+ month before that trip so I got ALL kinds of ideas for photos.

I find myself now taking a lot more pictures than I used to. In the digital age with out having to consider the cost of developing film and also being able to see the result instantly I do a lot more experimenting with different exposures so in the past I may have taken 1 or 2 shots of the same thing, now, if time permits, I'll take 4 or 5. Using different angles and exposures.

I just took an overnight trip to Philadelphia. I took a city tour, went to a baseball game and took a tour of the ball park. I took about 350 pics. I would have taken a lot more, but it rained most of the day before the game so wasn't able to get a lot of good shots around the city.

 

[NeverSayNever]

WOW... You guys are great... I have learned so much here. Will most likely go get another card today...

Another question though... I usually shoot JPEG... Will I get a huge benefit by switching to RAW... and what will the memory trade-off be?

Yes... still getting used to my DSLR!

Thanks again and again

 

[kldmom2000]

Oh my goodness! I thought my 500-600 pictures each trip was extreme! What are you taking 3000 pictures of may I ask?!?!?

 

[Groucho]

On my 10-day trip to WDW in January, I shot about 2,500, and I was sick the first four days. On my trip to DL last week, I shot about 1,200 in 3 days (and might have shot more but got tired of the abuse I was getting from the people I was with!)

It's highly unlikely you'll see a difference going from the Extreme 3 to the Ultra 2. This page has specific numbers for write speed with the XT, and it seems to max out around 6.2m/sec when shooting RAW (4.9 with JPG) - the Ultra 2 claims a 10m/sec write speed and the Extreme 3 has 20m/sec. In other words, with your camera (and virtually all DSLRs), it's really a waste to spend the extra money for speed that you won't see. It may be slightly faster when copying to photos to your PC, but I doubt you'll see a big difference.

If you can swing the extra memory card cost, I'd definitely shoot RAW. Even if you just convert them all to JPG now without any post-processing, you'll be able to go back when you are more comfortable with RAW and tweak them further (which is what I'm doing with my January trip photos now.) I'm not sure for your camera, but usually raw takes 2-3x as much space.

I wouldn't go the Disney write-to-CD route - it's $13 per CD, which holds 700 megs, so a 2g card will cost $39 to empty, and you can buy a 2gb card for probably $25 or so - plus you'll have the cards for the future, and you won't be wasting time at Disney getting CDs written.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Oh my goodness! I thought my 500-600 pictures each trip was extreme! What are you taking 3000 pictures of may I ask?!?!?

In the digital age with out having to consider the cost of developing film and also being able to see the result instantly I do a lot more experimenting with different exposures so in the past I may have taken 1 or 2 shots of the same thing, now, if time permits, I'll take 4 or 5. Using different angles and exposures.

Ditto!

 

[jen3003]

We were in WDW from August 16 -25 and I took about 2500 pictures. Now if I could just get myself to sit down and scrapbook them (not all of them of course.) My husband kept telling me to put the camera away already since I photograph the same things every year. I told him since I wasn't hurting him or anyone else my taking pics was just fine. Have fun and snap away remembering if you don't like the pic you can always delete it or try for a better one.