It’s been a while, both for this journal and for photo stats. However, in the past few weeks we’ve finally managed to cross the 450,000 photo mark, so here’s some new stats and graphs to celebrate!
First, the table of photos by camera. The last several months, in particular, have seen me shift from carrying my iPod and a DSLR (D90 or D7100), to my work iPhone and a DSLR, and finally to primarily relying on my work iPhone. The camera quality, at this point, is decent enough for what I shoot (random snapshots), and a phone is a lot easier to carry around than a DSLR. The shutter releases are also a bit out of control because of *how* I shoot… it’s still a lot simpler for me to take most photos as bursts and sort it out later, which leads to the crazy statistic of me keeping about 6% of all photos “shot” on the iPhone 8 Plus.
Intel Pocket PC camera | October 6, 2000 – September 18, 2003 | 1077 days; 2.95 years | 15,829 photos | $200 | 14.7 photos per day | 1.26¢ per photo |
Olympus C3000 Zoom | September 28, 2001 – December 5, 2003 | 798 days; 2.186 years | 10,647 photos | $450 | 13.3 photos per day | 4.23¢ per photo |
Kodak Easyshare DX6490 | December 8, 2003 – March 17, 2006 | 830 days; 2.274 years | 49,413 photos | $500 | 59.5 photos per day | 1.01¢ per photo |
Nikon D50 | March 22, 2006 – November 15, 2009 | 1334 days; 3.655 years | 105,067 photos | $570 | 78.8 photos per day | 0.54¢ per photo |
+$250 repair cost | 0.78¢ per photo | |||||
106,916 shutter releases | $570 | 80.15 shutter releases per day | 0.533¢ per shutter release | |||
+$250 repair cost | 0.77¢ per shutter release | |||||
Samsung SL30 | July 27, 2009 – December 1, 2016 | 2684 days; 7.35 years | 21,616 photos | $70 | 8.05 photos per day | 0.32¢ per photo |
Nikon D90 (Current) |
February 26, 2010 – November 30, 2018 | 3199 days; 8.76 years | 208,699 photos | $780 | 65.24 photos per day | 0.37¢ per photo |
289,872 shutter releases | 90.61 shutter releases per day | 0.27¢ per shutter release | ||||
iPhone 5 | June 23, 2013 – December 23, 2014 | 548 days; 1.5 years | 130 photos | $0 (Provided by work) |
0.24 photos per day | 0.00¢ per photo |
149 shutter releases | 0.27 shutter releases per day | 0.00¢ per shutter release | ||||
iPhone 6 Plus | January 8, 2015 – January 11, 2018 | 1099 days; 3.01 years | 4883 photos | $0 (Provided by work) |
4.44 photos per day | 0.00¢ per photo |
23,352 shutter releases | 21.25 shutter releases per day | 0.00¢ per shutter release | ||||
Nikon D7100 (Current) |
December 2, 2015 – December 24, 2018 | 1118 days; 3.06 years | 24,112 photos | $620 | 21.57 photos per day | 2.57¢ per photo |
64,702 shutter releases | 57.87 shutter releases per day | 0.96¢ per shutter release | ||||
iPod Touch 6 | December 2, 2017 – September 28, 2018 | 300 days; 0.82 years | 4955 photos | $160 | 16.52 photos per day | 3.23¢ per photo |
55,269 shutter releases | 184.23 shutter releases per day | 0.29¢ per shutter release | ||||
iPhone 8 Plus (Current) |
March 8, 2018 – December 28, 2018 | 295 days; 0.81 years | 4838 photos | $0 (Provided by work) |
16.4 photos per day | 0.00¢ per photo |
80,236 shutter releases | 271.99 shutter releases per day | 0.00¢ per shutter release |
Here are the dates on which I took each 25,000th photo as well as the number of days between each 25,000th photo. The data confirm my suspicion that I’m still slowing down on photos.
25,000 | 50,000 | 75,000 | 100,000 | 125,000 | 150,000 | |||||
January 12, 2004 | October 20, 2004 | April 10, 2006 | April 20, 2007 | December 4, 2007 | February 7, 2009 | |||||
282 days | 537 days | 375 days | 228 days | 431 days | ||||||
150,000 | 175,000 | 200,000 | 225,000 | 250,000 | 275,000 | |||||
February 7, 2009 | July 4, 2009 | April 14, 2010 | September 4, 2010 | June 23, 2011 | December 23, 2011 | |||||
147 days | 284 days | 143 days | 292 days | 183 days | ||||||
275,000 | 300,000 | 325,000 | 350,000 | 375,000 | 400,000 | |||||
December 23, 2011 | August 24, 2012 | June 2, 2013 | February 17, 2014 | March 21, 2015 | November 13, 2015 | |||||
245 days | 282 days | 260 days | 397 days | 237 days | ||||||
400,000 | 425,000 | 450,000 | ||||||||
November 13, 2015 | April 29, 2017 | December 2, 2018 | ||||||||
533 days | 582 days |
Here’s the usual graphs. First, number of photos taken by month, log scale y-axis:
Same thing but with a linear y-axis (second graph only includes time after graduation from CMU):
Total number of photos taken through time (second graph only includes time after graduation from CMU):
And amount of time between 1000 photos (second graph only includes time after graduation from CMU, so it starts at 131,000):
There’s not much happening otherwise, life-wise. We’re now in the Christmas break time, which is really nice. :)