10,000 shots!

[Igor]

OK, just a little post about exceeding the 10,000 frames taken with my beloved S2. Many of them are average to junk, but those few that made me and not only me feel the beauty of the world will never be forgotten.

Thank you, my S2 ! :)

[Tom V]

10,000 shots! Please post them!

:beerchug:

[Andre]

Sounds like you have too much time on your hands :)

[Igor]

Probably :) What's your "score" ?

[Schmiddi]

Hmm, no idea about my score. Is there a way to ask the S2? No fun to look around all CD and DVD and add the numbers...

Andreas

[Igor]

I have a "consistent" number of shots setting since day one, so my file names just indicate the number of my shots.

[Swampy]

My score is close to 13,000 in 13 months! I think Alissa will beat us all though, maybe someone else can beat her....

[Igor]

I beat you at rate :) I have 10,000 in 7 months!! :D

[Tom V]

Beats me.

[Swampy]

But Tom. You are the pro here. You set your shot up, look at it, take a mental picture, throw it away, re setup, mental shots over and over, then you take 2 pictures and keep em both. :)

Us amatuers still take 10 and keep 1. ;)

[es136]

Originally posted by Swampy
But Tom. You are the pro here. You set your shot up, look at it, take a mental picture, throw it away, ........

Correction. Tom takes 4 :voegeli: mental picture with every shot, so i think he beats everyone else here.:D

Eddie

[Eddie the Gnat]

Good shooting, Igor.:) I'm just an "amateur" who's clocked up about 3000 shots in 4 months, and the camera's paid for itself twice over in that time.:D Who needs an s3 - not me!

Eddie

[Tom V]

Originally posted by Swampy
But Tom. You are the pro here. You set your shot up, look at it, take a mental picture, throw it away, re setup, mental shots over and over, then you take 2 pictures and keep em both. :)

Us amatuers still take 10 and keep 1. ;)


Well, I am A pro here, there are plenty others, who apparently have the self-control not to come here every 30 minutes during the day.

I must remind everyone that I do not shoot every day, and photography is not the majority of my income. Most of the day, most days, I sit before the computer working in Quark and Photoshop. I did pick up the S2 today to make sure it was turned off.

My mental photo alblum looks like my garage. A mess.

My commercial photography (pro) nearly always involves a tripod, and a subject tha isn't going anywhere. I have control over everything, and only take pictures to test what I can't see, such as the actual flash lighting, the Histogram, or the FINAL IMAGE. It is very anti-climatic to see a commercial shoot. All prep, art direction, and a final 1/125 of exposure.

My personal photography (amature) is just like everyone elses. I blow more memory space than I care to admit. I get all the normal goofs everyone else gets. I fumble with lenses, I drop stuff, I drool over lenses I shouldn't buy, I get a sore shoulder from camera bags, I forget my tripod, I miss the shot, I blow the focus, I crop wrong, I hold the camera crooked. I have about 5,000 of these kinds of shots. I rarely get a great shot.

My "tree nursery graphics" job was the closest I have come to a walking around, hand-held pro job in some time. Of course, since I was racing a deadline, I didn't have the luxury of screwing around - I had to get the shots that day, and I mentally worked out the image goals in advance. That pre-determined the lens (105) and the existing light dictated the fill flash (Speedlight in a 12"x16" softbox. I hustled around looking for full frames of solid color, and found enough in 45 minutes to fill up the trade show booth. As individual shots, they are ordinary. As parts of a composition, they worked.
I took about 40 images I think, and I used 4 or 5.

I really haven't kept track too closely on my total exposures. For some reason my count started over at some point.

[Igor]

I'm gonna count the images I decided to keep and calculate my "deleted/kept ratio" :) I think it'll be somewhere around 10:1 :D

[Swampy]

Every 30 minutes? That's pretty damn good Tom!

[Andre]

Originally posted by Igor
Probably :) What's your "score" ?
Probably around 7500. Can't say for sure though, since the counter reset a couple of times on me.
I wonder if the camera keeps a record somewhere...

[sandman]

I'm still taking in the fact that Tom's human after all .
quote ''i get the normal goof everyone else gets''.
ah well another illusion blown away , guess i'll have to take his picture down from my hall, living room , bedroom, and toilet now.
pity i'll miss all that bowing down..::D

no of shots? roughly...2,000, before the new CCD..3,500, then i accidently reset.......now 3,400.... so about 9,000 in 18 months .. but i'm going to slow up this year and be more selective , and hopefully get a better number of 'keepers''. so Igor will proberbly overtake my posts total by next week , and be 5,000 ahead of me and swampy by easter.:)

Brian.


oopps just noticed Igors 50 in front already , last week he was 50 behind .. might have to revise that easter deadline

[petej]

I am on about 3000 shots in 18 months or so ---sad i know--- i must stop working so much--- still in the uk the spring is on its way and so i can pull my finger out and work the s2 harder.

Peter

[photopro]

I have shot about 15,000 frames with the camera since I got it in the early summer. Counter ticked over once. Conventions take 1-2000 frames each or more, and I take it everywhere with me for personal use. Not a problem to be seen yet. CCD cleaned once so far. Good, tough, little camera!! Most Nikon film cameras have a built in total frame counter that can be accessed with some creative buttonpushing. This is usually not in the user manual. Maybe the Fuji has one also for total frame count (incl. erasures)
George

[Sleeping Bear]

20,000+ on my S2 and I put about 7,000 on the loaner from Fuji.

[robinp]

I'm disappointed and disgusted - are you folks telling me that all the lovely photos I see posted here are just happy accidents?

Just because you're not paying for film is no excuse for not considering the shot before finally clicking the shutter! - would save on storage space and sifting through the junk when you get home too......

Cheers, Robin

[JPS]

...as, since I bought my S2 in august 2003, my latest pic was "DSCF3102.JPG" !

Out of these 3102 pics, there is a good 15-20 % that weren't "real" pics, but only shot to figure or set some parameters, like on-board flash, SB-80DX, manual settings, etc...

Within the 80 % left, (~2500 pics), I kept only about 20 %, wich makes it about 500 pics...

Now, out of these 500 pics, there's only 10 % of them that I'm really PROUD of !

Am I a BAD photographer, considering that in SEVEN months, I only have 50 photos that _I_ consider as beiing GOOD ?

:cheers:

[Igor]

JP, just because of this you are a GOOD photographer.
Of all my 12,000 shots I have about dozen prints on the walls. One of them is Linda's artwork :)

[Wilm]

Igor,

my counter is now at 9771 in the folder 101, means approx 20k pictures taken. In the beginning I have resetted the camera quite often, so there are maybe more.

I kept round about 10k photos on my harddisk and on CD.
I really like 1000 of them, the others are somtimes rubbish.

20% hit-rate is for me as amateur not really bad.


Wilm

[Igor]

Not bad Wilm. Do you print your best works? How many?

[Wilm]

Igor,

for my vacation-albums round about 200 went to a lab for professional printing. 50 other photos were also printed there in 20 x30 cm.

The sum of my inkjet-prints is somewhere around 100 in 10x15cm, 50 in 20x30cm and 5 in 20 x 250 cm ( panoramas )


From my point of view, photos on paper are best to archive them over a long period.



Wilm


:cheers:

[Mauro]

I have taken around 12.000 shots since March 2003, but met a lady photographer with more than 40.000 shots with a Canon 10D. That's a lot!!
Mauro

[Andre]

I'm at about 13,000 shots. About 12,900 of them taking up useless space on CDs and DVDs. But so what! It's not like I paid for that much film!!

[Igor]

Besides you had almost 13,000 moments of fun looking at your camera LCD and seeing what you've just shot! :)

[MikePL]

I have taken around 37,000 pictures in 13 months, but I don't consider myself a guy who doesn't think before shooting. I shoot mainly people and every milisecond carries a different facial expression. So every photo session means around 300-700 pictures. My longest session was taken almost a year ago, lasted 8 hours non-stop (a great model, she is my fiancee from that day on :cheers: ). We took over 1100 pics. To those who have taken fewer pictures, I can assure you that the shutter and mirror mechanisms work perfectly.

[Igor]

That's good news Mike! :cheers:

[Wilm]

After some extreme photo-days ( more than 1550 photos in one day ) today my counter shows what you can see at the photo !

I´ll try to shoot a little bit less during the next weeks :beerchug:

:cheers:
Wilm

[JPS]

...in a previous post, I said I had my S2 since August, but I checked and it apear that I received it July 25 2003.
Looks like I'm really a slooooow photographer, as I just passed the 4'000 shots today ! That's an average of 12.5 pic per day ! I can't imagine HOW someone (like MikePL) can possibly take 37'000 pics in 13 months ? ...that's about 95 pics EVERYDAY for about 390 days...?!?!?!? Well, it only proves that some have more free time than I have :(
:cheers:

[Igor]

...or maybe LESS free time if they shoot as professional photogs :)

[Auminer]

Just passed the 10K today also, how many good shots? I'll have to go through them again...naw think I'll wait for a rainy day or old age. :D

Dave

[Igor]

Congrats Dave. I think we all will enjoy our retirement: so many old pics to review!!! :)

[Sleeping Bear]

I have taken around 37,000 pictures in 13 months, but I don't consider myself a guy who doesn't think before shooting. I shoot mainly people and every milisecond carries a different facial expression. So every photo session means around 300-700 pictures. My longest session was taken almost a year ago, lasted 8 hours non-stop (a great model, she is my fiancee from that day on :cheers: ). We took over 1100 pics. To those who have taken fewer pictures, I can assure you that the shutter and mirror mechanisms work perfectly.

I agree. Sometimes you have to shoot, shoot, shoot. That's just the way it is. I miscounted my folders a couple of months ago. I'm at almost 42,000 images on the S2. Close to 15,000 are of one project. And Robin, If I could have, I would have shot more. But I only have two hands. :lol: :cheers:

[NZDoug]

So I broke 10000 shots on my s2 tonite.
I was working for an Australian agency who are here in AKL.
When I went to download the jpgs(I was shooting for a Powerpoint presentation to be presented 2 hours after finishing shooting) the coounter had zeroed itself and only the frames from 0 to 0032 were in the Fuji software.
This freaked me as 170 shots were missing.
I downlaoded what I could see.
I manually deleted the ones that I downloaded and reconnected the software with no joy.
Then I noticed I had another Fuji folder and when I selected it the missing shots appeared.
Half way burning the CDR on my iBook it ran out of juice.
My iBook charger is dodgy as its been yanked and panel beated to work more than once.
It woundnt recomence burning so we had to disconect the battery and the burner finally worked.
We downloaded the first 170 shots direct to the clients TiBook in iPhoto while I was wasting time sorting the iBook .
I finally got out alive with a happy client but my nerves were a bit frazzled.
When I got home I had to re-initinalize my card- thats never happened before.
Ive since done a test shoot and downloaded and the card seems to be acting normally. Maybe it went into shock meeting another computer -progrmme- OS 10-Im in Mac OS9.
Its 9.30PM now and Im on location at 700AM tomorrow 160KMs North so its a really early start.
No din tonite except cold hot dogs as its almost time to get up .
Sure hope my camera computer works 2morow! :confused: :stupid:

[JPS]

...I bought my S2, and I just passed the 5'000th shot ! :p

I guess I'm definitly a very slow shotter ! Loking at people who allready have 10'000 or more -see MikePL with 37'000 shot in 13 months... :troutsmac (sorry, there's no "crazy" smily... someone should invent one !?!), I'm just a "scroodge" shooter ! :cool:

Anyway, with all these news about the future S3 coming, I'm not ready -yet- to change my cam... still many things and tricks to learn from it -and in photography in general- ! :p

...well... errrrr... to be absolutly honest, I don't know HOW LONG I will resist when the S3 will/might at last come out on the market ! :rolleyes:

In any case, I spent much more than I should with all the photo-stuff I bought in one year: S2, lenses, tripods, etc... ! ...But I'm enjoying myself tremendously, and after all, it's all what counts in life, isnt'it ? :rockon:
:cheers: