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Does anyone have from a reputable souce an estimate of the number of digital images taken each year in the United States? I'd like to mention that statistic in a photography course I'm teaching. Thanks! Bob
 
Probably impossible to even estimate with any accuracy. There's a guy on these forums who will click off 30,000 shots or more of his dogs...on a weekend.
 
Dr G said:
Does anyone have from a reputable souce an estimate of the number of digital images taken each year in the United States?
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Kind of a squirrely number to try to come up with, what with cell-phone photos and all. Not that it stops people:

"Digital camera owners in the United States will shoot 27 billion photos this year, according to the Photo Marketing Association"
( http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/21/TRPL186G1V.DTL )

PMA reportedly had estimated 24 billion for 2008. I apologize that I'm not going to pay for their reports just to answer your question more authoritatively. :-)
 
Probably a kabillionjillionzillion! :D

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J. D.
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I do understand its a Jeep thing . . . thats why I bought a Dodge!
 
cshess said:
Probably impossible to even estimate with any accuracy. There's a guy on these forums who will click off 30,000 shots or more of his dogs...on a weekend.
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Please tell me you made that up. Otherwise it's a picture every three seconds for 12 hours on both days... :-)

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Mike
 
I remember reading something like that a few years ago. That guy wasn't shooting only his own dogs [that would be cruelty to animals :) ] but he did dog shows. He posted because he destroyed his shutter [one of those rated at 50K] and he could not get a repair under warranty after two weekends.
If it was made up, it was made up well :)
mike703 said:
cshess said:
Probably impossible to even estimate with any accuracy. There's a guy on these forums who will click off 30,000 shots or more of his dogs...on a weekend.
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Please tell me you made that up. Otherwise it's a picture every three seconds for 12 hours on both days... :-)

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Robert
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If you go to http://www.images.google.com and search for "digital image" it will return 407,000,000 picture links. Maybe start with something like that to kick off a conversation on how many digital shots are taken each year. At least 80% of the people I come in contact with have digital pic's on their phones and cameras and have never downloaded them to their PC or other media to save them. A lot of them delete the old when the chip gets full...

More subject matter to lead to guessing or projecting but are you teaching statistics or photography? Don't take that question wrong, it is intended to maybe sway you from straying off topic with your students. I have taken courses that were mediocre at best but had great potential had the instructor stayed on subject... Just food for thought, please don't take offense, none is intended.
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I'll have to do a search. I think his user name is Perfect Poms. I remember him stating that he has over a million frames of his dogs. Some long threads developed from this, with some using math and statistics to question him, others just not believing, and others defending him. He has a website up with his photos. I'll search around a bit. :-)
 
I forget how to link here, but go to the Nikon D3-1 forum, go to Search, type in Perfect Poms. His latest post, about 20 hours ago, he says he took 18,000 shots in 1 day. Look through his older posts, and you'll see some of his staggering statistics. :-)
 
Thanks to all; that's very helpful. The digital imaging class I'll be teaching is part of a genealogy conference. I anticipate many of the attendees will not have much experience with digital photography, and will be interested to hear of its rapid proliferation.

Thanks again.

Bob
 
cshess said:
I forget how to link here, but go to the Nikon D3-1 forum, go to Search, type in Perfect Poms. His latest post, about 20 hours ago, he says he took 18,000 shots in 1 day. Look through his older posts, and you'll see some of his staggering statistics. :-)
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This guy took a picture of his dogs, every 5 seconds for 24 hours straight? And I thought people and their cat photo camera tests were bad ;-)
 
Found him. Many thanks. He uses a 10fps camera and basically keeps the shutter down for long sequences of shots, using his D3 like a movie camera. So it's a bit easier to see how he cranks up such large numbers of shots. Actually the pics are pretty good, although the sets could do with some editing!

Best wishes
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Dr G said:
Thanks to all; that's very helpful. The digital imaging class I'll be teaching is part of a genealogy conference. I anticipate many of the attendees will not have much experience with digital photography, and will be interested to hear of its rapid proliferation.

Thanks again.

Bob
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In the last 8 months I've shot just over 2500 frames. I'm quite meticulous with my shots - as if I was shooting film. I'm fairly sure that 2/3 of that will get erased, since there is no need to polute my hard drive, keeping frames that I'm not too fond of.....or will ever use. Don't know how many are like me, but I have a second computer where all my (essential) photos are, so Google or anyone else can't jot that as part of relative statistics.

Leswick
 
Dr G said:
Thanks to all; that's very helpful. The digital imaging class I'll be teaching is part of a genealogy conference. I anticipate many of the attendees will not have much experience with digital photography, and will be interested to hear of its rapid proliferation.
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That sounds interesting. I'm sure digital photography + the Internet are having a big impact on genealogy... especially images that are tagged, indexed, and searchable. The problem of course is that too many people are taking and uploading too many photos that are not edited to select the best photos and they are not all tagged for searching. Looking through many online photo galleries isn't much different than looking through someone's shoebox full of prints.

What is interesting are social networking sites like Facebook that allow you to find not only all of the photos someone has in their personal Facebook galleries, but also all of the photos they appear in that are stored in other peoples' galleries. It's also amazing how many old family photos have been scanned and uploaded to sites like Facebook and other more genealogy type sites.

Good luck with the conference!

Sean
 
Dr G said:
Does anyone have from a reputable souce an estimate of the number of digital images taken each year in the United States? I'd like to mention that statistic in a photography course I'm teaching. Thanks! Bob
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Maybe there is a "reputable" figure out there and maybe you can find it. (I'm sorry, I can't help you...)

Otherwise, "billions and billions" is both a safe number and is impressive to most people.
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Thanks, Sean. I think I'll mention social networking sites like Facebook; thanks for the idea. I'm going to get into whatever the audience has the most interest in, but I'm planning on showing them some things I've really enjoyed doing with images...like books on Blurb, and combining video and stills into DVD productions that can be duplicated and shared via services like Kunaki. We've made some nice DVDs from images from church hurricane relief efforts (Katrina, Frances, Jean), and high school marching bands. I want to help them get their images out of their cameras and into media their families can enjoy for a long time.
 
baxters said:
Too bad for the photo suppliers that not many of these photos ever get printed.
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You under estimate how many people still print their images . . .

We do around 2000-3000 digital prints per day out of our photo lab.

Film processing is way down (actually, almost extinct) . . . but the number of prints printed is still up there!

It is that pesky film roll processing charge that put the crimps on the photolab money flow . . . not to mention that digital prints today cost half or less than what was charged for them when printed from film.

Actually, I think we turn out more prints per day with digital than when we did during the film days.

Anyway, that is just one camera store . . . how about all of the prints daily from other camera stores, pro labs, Costco, Sam's, Walmart, Walgreens and everywhere else that churns out lots of digital prints daily?

And don't forget about photo books and calenders . . . very popular these days!

Our six kiosk machines are all usually busy all day long.

Lets also not forget about all of those injet printers and Kodak EasyShare printer docks out there in peoples homes and offices still cranking out paper . . .

Maybe around here in the chats most don't print many pictures, but out there in the real world people are still printing.

Mostly from digital files . . . very rarely from negatives.

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J. D.
Colorado
 
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