I miss film!

[New England Eeyore]

Our last trip was my first full-length trip using my digital camera. I absolutely loved using it, don't get me wrong, but now I'm faced with the task of weeding through over 2000 pictures and deciding which ones to order, ie which ones to scrap. I kind of miss the days of dropping the film off and picking up a nice pack of photos ready to go.

We got back a month and a half ago and I've been putting off doing this because I knew it was a bear of a task. Not to mention going through all my "stuff" - receipts, brochures, etc (I have a big shopping bag full) plus going through my swap stash and figuring out what elements I'll be using, and that's all before I sit down to actually scrap anything!

I figure this album will be done around 2017. If I'm lucky.

 

[aprilvaca04]

I can relate...while I to love digital and being able to preview your pics right away and being able to do "do overs" I do miss film also. I am in the process of gathering pics to put together a slide show for my DD HS graduation and it was a bit easier going thru my photos from when she was younger vs going thru the many I have on the computer and on disc. I guess there's pros and cons to each like everything else!

 

[kaddjr]

...but now I'm faced with the task of weeding through over 2000 pictures and deciding which ones to order, ie which ones to scrap.I figure this album will be done around 2017. If I'm lucky.

WOW! And I thought I took alot of pictures! My parents are going with us on our trip in a few weeks (leaving in 19 days! ), so we with 3 of us each having a camera, I'm sure we won't be lacking in the pictures. And since we will have so many, I think I'm going to try my hand at digi scrapping. Don't feel bad about the album taking so long- I'm still working on our '05 trips!

 

[New England Eeyore]

I know 2000 is kind of crazy. But that was over 10 days and includes my DsD's pictures. I also collect pictures inside rides and shows, etc and of signs and stuff to one day do an album of each park, not trip specific so that's a huge chunk of them.

And I actually still haven't scrapped my trips from 05 and 06 (2 trips each!) But those were without the kids (and 3 were without my DH) so I probably won't scrap them as I usually do. This one is more of a priority right now. The kids already said to me, "So when are you going to start that scrapbook - next year?" I can't prove them right!

 

[Yzerbear19]

I know 2000 is kind of crazy. But that was over 10 days and includes my DsD's pictures. I also collect pictures inside rides and shows, etc and of signs and stuff to one day do an album of each park, not trip specific so that's a huge chunk of them.

My sister and I took 2100 pictures in 3.5 days at Gettysburg! Now that seems crazy! It took me a while to get used to picking which pictures to print, but now it doesn't seem weird. Plus if I don't print one now, I can always print it later. With film we were always having to pay for some bad and strange pictures. I can't remember how many we took on our 7 day trip to WDW, but it was definitely over 2000. I once took 500 photos at Greenfield Village in less than 4 hours. My friend went to China for 2 weeks and only took 500 photos.

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

My DH was playing around with his new lense and took 80 of the boys playing in the pool in just about an hour. And about half of them are definitely scrap worthy. But what am I going to do with 40 pictures of pool pictures???

 

[New England Eeyore]

See - digital has made it so we will never be caught up with our scrapping!
Almost makes you want to stick to swapping.

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Lets see, DH took 5000 on our trip to WDW at Xmas. 90% are great and very easily scrapable. But he also shoots in raw format so I have to convert everything to jpg before printing. Needless to say every trip shot with strictly digital has not been printed.

 

[AlexWyattMommy]

Lets see, DH took 5000 on our trip to WDW at Xmas. 90% are great and very easily scrapable. But he also shoots in raw format so I have to convert everything to jpg before printing. Needless to say every trip shot with strictly digital has not been printed.

Luckily our camera saves both, raw & jpg. So if i do a sort I can weed out the raw, move the jpg to another file and then weed through those to pick the good ones.