How Often Do You Use Your Camera?

[WiltshireMoonraker59]

I usually go out for a walk everyday and when I do I always take at least camera with me. For convenience my Sony RX100 mk1 slips into any pocket but if I am going somewhere preplanned, then its my EM1ii or my Fuji XS-1 or both! I don't always take photos however, especially on my morning walks because I tend to walk on the same range of local walks.

 

[Redhenry]

Since swapping a DSLR for an iPhone, I take more pictures and get better results - not talking about image quality, just that having the phone camera with me all the time means I take more pictures of the nice things I see, and the iPhone has the ability to do perfectly exposed and focused close-ups, low-light pics, ultra-wide, short telephoto and panoramas hand-held and without additional equipment. As Bob A L said earlier, as long as the pics aren’t going to be bigger than my computer screen or iPad, I don’t miss the DSLR one bit.

 

[Sue Anne Rush]

Hello...

Since swapping a DSLR for an iPhone, I take more pictures and get better results - not talking about image quality, just that having the phone camera with me all the time means I take more pictures of the nice things I see, and the iPhone has the ability to do perfectly exposed and focused close-ups, low-light pics, ultra-wide, short telephoto and panoramas hand-held and without additional equipment. As Bob A L said earlier, as long as the pics aren’t going to be bigger than my computer screen or iPad, I don’t miss the DSLR one bit.

I see - to each their own - as long as you are happy - nice choices if you want. IMHO.

 

[Redhenry]

Hello...

Since swapping a DSLR for an iPhone, I take more pictures and get better results - not talking about image quality, just that having the phone camera with me all the time means I take more pictures of the nice things I see, and the iPhone has the ability to do perfectly exposed and focused close-ups, low-light pics, ultra-wide, short telephoto and panoramas hand-held and without additional equipment. As Bob A L said earlier, as long as the pics aren’t going to be bigger than my computer screen or iPad, I don’t miss the DSLR one bit.

I see - to each their own - as long as you are happy - nice choices if you want. IMHO.

Hi Sue Anne,

This is all about having an easy life! My picture-taking has never required anything other than a modest zoom range and the ability to produce pictures to view on a tablet or print up to A4 so I don’t need a ‘proper’ camera. The phone is just more convenient and easier for me. I’ve done the same with the hi-fi, records and CDs. Everything is on my phone, gets played through a speaker the size of a bag of sugar and still sounds great to me. I’ve driven a stick-shift car all my adult life (usual thing in the UK) but when the current one has to go, it will be replaced by a small electric automatic. Happy New Year (almost)! RH

 

[Sue Anne Rush]

Hello...

Hello...

Since swapping a DSLR for an iPhone, I take more pictures and get better results - not talking about image quality, just that having the phone camera with me all the time means I take more pictures of the nice things I see, and the iPhone has the ability to do perfectly exposed and focused close-ups, low-light pics, ultra-wide, short telephoto and panoramas hand-held and without additional equipment. As Bob A L said earlier, as long as the pics aren’t going to be bigger than my computer screen or iPad, I don’t miss the DSLR one bit.

I see - to each their own - as long as you are happy - nice choices if you want. IMHO.

Hi Sue Anne,

This is all about having an easy life! My picture-taking has never required anything other than a modest zoom range and the ability to produce pictures to view on a tablet or print up to A4 so I don’t need a ‘proper’ camera. The phone is just more convenient and easier for me. I’ve done the same with the hi-fi, records and CDs. Everything is on my phone, gets played through a speaker the size of a bag of sugar and still sounds great to me. I’ve driven a stick-shift car all my adult life (usual thing in the UK) but when the current one has to go, it will be replaced by a small electric automatic. Happy New Year (almost)! RH

Yes take it easy - IMHO 2022 is going to be a great year.

 

[BackToNature1]

Hello...

Beautiful photographs - thank you for sharing.

Thanks, Sue and LeciaEye.

 

[Phil A Martin]

OK, then my answer is seldom. Only for specific uses, mostly involving telephoto lenses and involving action, with the need for quick precise focusing and quick handling (wildlife and sports).

If smartphones had been included the answer would have been every day and much more frequently than ever before in my 60+ years of taking photographs. These things are just entirely too easy to always have available and produce great images when restricted to full screen on my computer or 8x10 and smaller prints, which covers the final destination of at least 99.5% of my photos.

Indeed smart phones as cameras are here to stay. Some photos I've seen are amazing. And I'm not talking about the trumped-up photos that Apple or whatever company is providing in an effort to sell them. I mean real photos from regular people. But sadly, because smart phones generally pump up Saturation and Sharpness, any photo taken with a real dedicated camera must be

Why must it be? Why try to imitate smartphone output? Why not just accept the superior subtlety available from a dedicated camera?

PP to match the cell phone pic.

I just wished people would learn how to hold the phone still while pressing the shutter button.

I have absolutely no interest in how people use their smartphones. It makes no difference to me.

Oh, and I've also found that people just think the camera lens will stay clean by itself or don't care.

Again they treat their phone has no effect on me, therefore I don't care what they do.

For me personally, I find little pleasure in using my cell phone to take pics, otherwise I might use it more often.

I use mine quite often for snaps and records and occasionally take serious images with it.

 

[EOS GUY]

I work full time

When out of work time, at least one to two all day sessions a month and a lot of my vacation time is spent shooting

I make up for the lack of frequency with all day sessions

 

[Mika Y.]

OK, then my answer is seldom. Only for specific uses, mostly involving telephoto lenses and involving action, with the need for quick precise focusing and quick handling (wildlife and sports).

If smartphones had been included the answer would have been every day and much more frequently than ever before in my 60+ years of taking photographs. These things are just entirely too easy to always have available and produce great images when restricted to full screen on my computer or 8x10 and smaller prints, which covers the final destination of at least 99.5% of my photos.

Indeed smart phones as cameras are here to stay. Some photos I've seen are amazing. And I'm not talking about the trumped-up photos that Apple or whatever company is providing in an effort to sell them. I mean real photos from regular people. But sadly, because smart phones generally pump up Saturation and Sharpness, any photo taken with a real dedicated camera must be PP to match the cell phone pic.

I don't feel personally that way. Since I'm taking the photos primarily for my own enjoyment, I'll process them to my own taste / whatever I feel will work for the given scene.

 

[mobi1]

Only when I go on holidays [which is now rare after pandemic] or there is some special occasion at home or nearby [birthdays etc.]

Rest of the time use phone as it is always with me.

 

[RebeccasPhotos]

Looking through my Lightroom catalogue and dates taken - on average I take photos on 13-15 days in a month. This is generally broken down equally into three categories -

• Planned trips for sole purpose of taking photos
• Taking photos whilst out doing another activity/socialising
  • although sometimes it is a bit of a blurred line whether or not it is "another activity" or just me wanting to go out and take photos and just happens to have lined up well with a friend wanting to go somewhere..
• Random experimental shots at home or in the garden and photos of my cat

 

[Aberaeron]

I'm assuming pros use their camera quite often but what about the rest of us?

I tend to go in spurts and the one thing that bothers me is after a few weeks of the camera sitting in the closest, once I pick it up again the controls, switchgear, menus, and dials have lost their intuitive nature.

I saw one video where the guy said he tried to take 27 photos every day to keep things fresh.

How often are you out shooting?

In my case probably five days out of seven for a good part of the year. It will be a struggle from the New Year to mid-March though, because everything turns so grey here in rural Wales. I don’t go out with a specific project in mind but do usually take a camera with me whether at work or play.

Today, I grabbed my 100-300 Panasonic M4/3 lens and caught a couple of pairs of hen pheasants perched on a gate. Unfortunately hen pheasants are very grey and less than great subjects at this time of year during the early afternoon when light is already weakening, so there are no keepers as far as I’m concerned. Especially as they were about 75metres away from me with a hedge behind them. All very grey. :-(

 

[richiebee]

I'm a working photographer and use my work cameras every work day. My personal cameras have hardly been touched in the last year. Hoping to change that in 2022.

 

[Phil A Martin]

I'm assuming pros use their camera quite often but what about the rest of us?

I tend to go in spurts and the one thing that bothers me is after a few weeks of the camera sitting in the closest, once I pick it up again the controls, switchgear, menus, and dials have lost their intuitive nature.

I saw one video where the guy said he tried to take 27 photos every day to keep things fresh.

How often are you out shooting?

I carry a camera everywhere, even to work. I photograph on the way to work, often in my lunch break and on the way home from work. I try to shoot everyday.

 

[drynn]

I have 52 'keepers' so far in December. I no longer keep the mundane so I have probably culled about a further 250 - 300.

Some of the 52 include Christmas Day posed family shots.

 

[Howard V]

It's very satisfying and the outings are good for health. My hound loves it. I look, he sniffs. Life is good.

 

[Graham Meale]

When I'm travelling, hundreds of shots a day. When I'm not, none. Thanks to covid I've only taken half a dozen shots since March 2020.

 

[pstivanin]

Not as often as I'd like. Maybe 10/15 per month.

 

[Gato Amarillo]

It's a personal thing, but if I don't have a camera in my hands working at least 3 times a week I lose technical proficiency. More would be better, but in my retirement days I don't always get that.

If I don't have anything to photograph I'll do what I call "batting practice" -- I'll wander around shooting for color and composition without much regard for what the subject may be.

I will never be as adept technically as I was when I was working in newspaper and shooting 3 or 4 assignments a day, 5 or 6 days a week, but I think my sense of design and story telling has improved over the years, partly just from experience and time, partly because I spend more time now looking at and thinking about pictures.

I believe photography is like music or sports -- if you want to be the best you can you have to be involved with it virtually every day. But I also think each individual has a personal optimum level, and needs to find a balance of practice, thought, and study.

Gato

 

[David Pavlich]

Typically, quite a lot. However, I make an exception when the high temp for the day is -26C. There is nothing outside that needs to be photographed that badly.

David