Well, this post has been a *long* time coming. Thanks to the pandemic (and six [!] months of double-digit photos, including January and February 2021 with 19 and 18 photos), it’s taken three years (!) to take 25,000 photos and hit the next milestone of 475,000 photos.
We finally hit it yesterday, thanks to an impromptu Pittsburgh visit by Karl, featuring the second day in a row of long walks (10 miles yesterday, probably like 5 miles the previous day).
So… first up is the (full) camera stats table, this time featuring a new work phone (iPhone 12). (We had a couple new photos with the D90, but it’s not in regular use, so I’m keeping it in retired status despite it being usable.)
| 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 – July 23, 2021 | 4165 days; 11.4 years | 208,718 photos | $780 | 50.11 photos per day | 0.37¢ per photo |
| 290,005 shutter releases | 69.63 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 5, 2021 | 2195 days; 6.01 years | 34,064 photos | $620 | 15.52 photos per day | 1.82¢ per photo |
| 94,082 shutter releases | 42.86 shutter releases per day | 0.66¢ per shutter release | ||||
| iPod Touch 6 (Current) |
December 2, 2017 – December 4, 2021 | 1463 days; 4.01 years | 5605 photos | $160 | 3.83 photos per day | 2.85¢ per photo |
| 66,387 shutter releases | 45.38 shutter releases per day | 0.24¢ per shutter release | ||||
| iPhone 8 Plus | March 8, 2018 – March 21, 2021 | 1109 days; 3.04 years | 17,751 photos | $0 (Provided by work) |
16.01 photos per day | 0.00¢ per photo |
| 252,264 shutter releases | 227.47 shutter releases per day | 0.00¢ per shutter release | ||||
| iPhone 12 (Current) |
March 26, 2021 – December 5, 2021 | 254 days; 0.7 years | 1114 photos | $0 (Provided by work) |
4.39 photos per day | 0.00¢ per photo |
| 9941 shutter releases | 39.14 shutter releases per day | 0.00¢ per shutter release |
Here’s the first photo taken with the iPhone 12:
And here’s the 475,000th photo (incidentally also taken with the iPhone 12):
Here’s the photo counts table. Thanks, pandemic.
| 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 | 475,000 | |||||
| March 21, 2015 | November 13, 2015 | April 29, 2017 | December 2, 2018 | December 5, 2021 | |||||
| 237 days | 533 days | 582 days | 1099 days | ||||||
And the usual graphs, starting with photos by month over time, log scale y-axis:
The same thing, but with a linear scale y-axis (full timescale versus 2010 onward):
Total number of photos taken over time (full timescale versus 2010 onward):
And time between 1000 photos (full timescale versus 2010 onward):
Those pandemic spikes on the graphs are unsurprising, but still unfortunate.