I took the last week off work and mostly spent it in a cabin in the middle of Blue Knob State Park, disconnected from the internet and the world. And it was really, really nice, especially given we hadn’t really been anywhere but home since early March.
In any case, photos still aren’t really happening, but it’s been almost two years since the last photo stats compilation, so I figured I’d do one even though I haven’t hit the next 25k milestone (475,000) yet (only at 470,682). October 2020 is also my 20th year of taking digital photos, so it’s also somewhat appropriate to do now.
As always, first is the (full) table of photos by camera. My Work iPhone has pretty much become my primary camera now because it’s more convenient to carry. I also haven’t used my D90 since I last went rock climbing (in November 2018, before the last stats), so I’m going to mark it as retired for now.
| 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 | 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 – October 22, 2020 | 1786 days; 4.89 years | 31,807 photos | $620 | 17.81 photos per day | 1.95¢ per photo |
| 87,751 shutter releases | 49.13 shutter releases per day | 0.71¢ per shutter release | ||||
| iPod Touch 6 (Current) |
December 2, 2017 – May 24, 2019 | 538 days; 1.47 years | 5021 photos | $160 | 9.33 photos per day | 3.18¢ per photo |
| 57,515 shutter releases | 106.91 shutter releases per day | 0.28¢ per shutter release | ||||
| iPhone 8 Plus (Current) |
March 8, 2018 – October 22, 2020 | 959 days; 2.62 years | 17,410 photos | $0 (Provided by work) |
18.15 photos per day | 0.00¢ per photo |
| 249,007 shutter releases | 259.65 shutter releases per day | 0.00¢ per shutter release |
I added the 0th photo to the 25k photo table. We haven’t hit 475k yet, but we’re now on 692 days with another 5k-ish photos to go before hitting 475k. I blame the quarantine.
| 0 | 25,000 | 50,000 | 75,000 | 100,000 | 125,000 | ||||
| October 6, 2000 | January 12, 2004 | October 20, 2004 | April 10, 2006 | April 20, 2007 | December 4, 2007 | ||||
| 1193 days | 282 days | 537 days | 375 days | 228 days | |||||
| 125,000 | 150,000 | 175,000 | 200,000 | 225,000 | 250,000 | ||||
| December 4, 2007 | February 7, 2009 | July 4, 2009 | April 14, 2010 | September 4, 2010 | June 23, 2011 | ||||
| 431 days | 147 days | 284 days | 143 days | 292 days | |||||
| 250,000 | 275,000 | 300,000 | 325,000 | 350,000 | 375,000 | ||||
| June 23, 2011 | December 23, 2011 | August 24, 2012 | June 2, 2013 | February 17, 2014 | March 21, 2015 | ||||
| 183 days | 245 days | 282 days | 260 days | 397 days | |||||
| 375,000 | 400,000 | 425,000 | 450,000 | ||||||
| March 21, 2015 | November 13, 2015 | April 29, 2017 | December 2, 2018 | ||||||
| 237 days | 533 days | 582 days | |||||||
And it’s graph time. First, number of photos taken by month, log scale y-axis:
Same thing but with a linear y-axis (second graph is since 2010):
Total number of photos taken through time (second graph is since 2010):
And amount of time between 1000 photos (second graph is since 2010, starting at 187,000):
The pandemic is really causing craziness, which I suppose shouldn’t too unsurprising. We have a bit of a photo spike in Feburary (Thailand for dad’s funeral) followed by a plummet as everything shut down.