How Many Pictures do you take per day?

8 shots per day????? Even before the arrival of digital I couldn't limit myself to that let alone nowadays. If I'm in Europe for 3 weeks I bring back on average 500 pics. At home I can cut them down to about 150 or even under 100 but I cannot do that properly with just the little screen on the camera.

For me, it was approx 1500 shots in 16 days. Do the math. I had two large memory cards. Deleted bad shots when safely home. Yeah, maybe a bit over the top, but it was a once in a lifetime trip with my husband and our grown children. Would do the same again. We were having such a wonderful time; the kids NEVER said "no, mom, not another photo." They are still happy with so many pics and memories. Lots of people shots, but also lots of architecture and scenery. Great for enlarging.

"I cannot do that properly with just the little screen on the camera."

That is one of the many advantages of bringing along a small notebook computer. Mine (2.9#) has a 10 inch screen and every morning at breakfast I review the pictures from the day before, label them if necessary, sort them by location, and store them on my hard drive.

I'd say I take between 9-10 pictures a day. Also, I take much smaller than 6MB pictures. About all I ever do with my pictures is display them on my home computer screen, so 1024x768 (350KB) is plenty big. Occasionally I print them at 4x6, but 1024x768 is still plenty good for that. 8x10 might be "grainy", but I never print them that big. Also, I have never been tempted to blow up or crop the pictures. I have a 3x telephoto on the camera, and if I need to zoom in, that's enough.

I once tried to shot the same picture at 1024x768 and again at a higher res. When I viewed them on the computer, and later had them printed at 4x6, I couldn't tell which was which.

LOL Okay Okay I'm being a little ridiculous, I see! I'll buy another memory card. Thanks!

I don't view myself as a big photo bug any more. I was at one time but I still shoot 20 or 30 pictures a day. I bring my TV adaptor cable along and will run through the pictures each day on the TV in my room -- if available. I think I now have 2 - 512 cards and 2- 1 gig cards. Some don't mind but a lot of internet cafes do not let you upload material. You can find places that will burn CDs for you from your cards. Recently my son purchased a battery driven, 30g, hard drive about the size of two decks of card with a built in card reader. No screen but just insert the card and it automatically downloads everything on the card. I think it is pretty handy. Four or five meg is more than enough for 8 x10 and excessive if you are only going to pictures on a TV or computer screen. Cut down the size of your pictures.

One of he best things about digital is that you can take lots of photos. I don't always take the time and battery to review and delete them. Figure I will have plenty of time and enjoy it more at home. Can't imagine not being able to take all the shots I want?

Let's see, I went on holiday for two days a month ago and came back with around 800 pictures and about a dozen videos... admittedly, it was a special and unique event, with difficult photo conditions which meant that I discarded at least half the photos...

I think it depends on who you are... photography is a hobby, and I'll happily take 500 pictures to get that one perfect shot that cements a memory forever.

After I got my new camara I was going to buy a 1 gig memory card and found that a 2 gig was only about $10 more so I bought the 2 gig. I am so glad I did. Several years ago hubby and I went to the Amazons and I kept having get rid of pics so I could take more.

Melanie, you can increase your picture capacity by not taking "high quality" pictures. Your camera can be set at a lower setting, and this will change the memory room needed to store the files. You won't notice a difference in quality.

OK, so I must be addicted to picture taking. I take approximately 1500 - 2000 on a 10 - 12 day trip. I have taken as many as 2500 on one that was longer. I take 5 one gig cards with me, do minimal editing on the trip, and then edit extensively at home. I use the highest quality setting on the camera. I love looking at them every once in a while and revisiting the experiences of being in that place.

Melanie -
If you are planning on enlarging any of the photos once you get back home, you might want to think about the quality of the prints you're taking to begin with. I'm a photo freak - the last trip to Scotland (before digital - I converted late!) I took 64 rolls of film. On my recent vaca to Tanzania I took around 5000 photos plus videos. Once in a lifetime - I hope not - but if I don't make it back, a picture is worth 1,000 words, right? Get a 2GB card - and even with a medium file size, that should allow you in the neighborhood (just guessing) around 500 pictures.
Dont' forget extra batteries or your charger!

I find that I prefer higher capacity cards... 4GB cards can still fit on a DVD, but hold around 2000 of my highest quality shots (8MP)... or hundreds of pictures, and still many good minutes of the highest quality video.

I bought a high speed 4GB SD card from London Drugs on Boxing Day for around $40, same card goes regularly all the time at Costco for around $45.

Memory is cheap now, and it's so much easier to get a large card or two rather than shuffling or worrying about offloading each day.

Photo editing in my books usually means cropping. I crop extensively and that means I do need to start out with a picture at high resolution so that the small part that I keep in the end still has sufficient resolution.

Jeeze, I think my wife takes about 800+ photos on a good day when traveling. :-)

Buy an extra card or two so you can feel free to take as many as you want. They are so cheap now that there is no reason to feel limited by the size of the card!

I bring home 500-600 shots from a 30 day trip. I review my shots during the trip and delete ones with poor lighting, composure or blurry due to camera or subject movement. I take several pictures of a subject and keep the best one or two. I delete 2 or 3 pictures for each one I bring home. That makes about 1500 to 2400 pictures in 30 days or 50 to 80 a day.

This is so much better than the old days when I ended up with a bag of 35 mm film and had to develop/print all of them just to know which ones turned out well.

Get a big memory card, it's worth the money. It's also easy to carry extra memory cards if you prefer several smaller ones. The best way to get good pictures is to take a lot. With digital you can delete them as you go so taking lots of pictures isn't expensive or wasteful. If you try to ration your photos, you will come home thinking, "I wish I had a photo of ..."

When you get home a great way to enjoy your pictures is to set the screensaver on your computer to a slideshow of your pictures from the trip.

During our 8 week trip..we took 797 pics and 11-1/2 hours of film.

Took between 3,000 and 4,000 in three weeks. Took 10 gb worth of cards but did not use them all. Filled one 4 gb card and part of another. Like Brad I use them as my screen saver which is a great way to enjoy the photos and bring back the memories of a great trip. Also, I enlarge many to an 8x10 or 8 1/2 by 11 for framing. Also enlarged a photo I made of Vernazza to 13x19 and it came out really nice.

Yes, bring as much memory as you can, and batteries, etc. If this is your first trip you will take many many pictures -- I've been to Europe several times now and the number of pictures I take just keeps getting bigger.

I am far from being a techno weenie guy, but this is how we handle this-take your camera to a photo shop and have them transfer your maxed out chip for between 1-2 E. Works for us. Have a great trip!

Buy a couple of 2Gig cards both for capacity or at least as a back up card if one fails. Keep your resolution at the highest level possible. Contrary to another posting, using a lower resolution just to increase capacity can have a HUGE negative effect if for some reason you want to enlarge a photo or crop a section and enlarge it. If all you're going to do is look at the photo on a computer or television, I agree, it won't make much of a difference in viewing.
If you're going to print, shoot the highest resolution the camera is capable of. Shoot, shoot and shoot some more. If you find some obvious duds, delete them. Sometimes though, photos taken and viewed in the cameras viewfinder can contain something interesting that you won't see in the viewfinder. Shoot plenty and delete at home. With memory as inexpensive as it is don't cut your photo memories short.

I TOTALLY agree w/Guy! On my last trip to Ireland I was on a three week trip and was prepared, however, on my third week I had a friend fly in w/his 2 teenage daughters who's card only held like 189 photos(which I thought was odd)... After one day luckily I knew where a TESCO's the size of a Walmart in was in Killarney... TRIP SAVED!!! Although, we my friend purchased the 'last' card they had in the store. Also, remember to bring rechargable batteries, charger, you can get an adapter & converter in Europe. Batteries will be VERY expensive. FYI: you can get adapters and converters for decent prices at local dept stores. Good luck and have fun!

Or, buy a charger that is rated for use in Europe too... my little Energizer charger is rated for 100-240, and can be charged either from the wall or from a computer. My brother gave me a good Christmas gift for a change!

I average almost 100 images per day - and that doesn't include the ones I delete in the camera!

Go to Costco Canada online and order some extra memory cards. They are cheap and will allow complete freedom to take as many pics as wanted.

Pete

8 picture per day is far less than I've ever taken in my life, unless I would be still a kid now.
Depending where I am and how much I move around, I take hundrends of pix per day.
You don't have to set you camera at the maximum resolution. You don't need huge pictures. I usually keep my camera set on medium size.
I use a 2 GB memory card which gives enough "room" for a few days. But I have about 4 memory cards I purchased over years, 256 MB , 500 MB and 1 GB. I use these in case of emergency.

Buy yourself a few big memory cards, you won't regret it if you do and will probably regret it if you don't. Make sure you have spare batteries and a charger if needed. I didn't pack my charger, assuming the two batteries I had would hold. They were BOTH dead by the second day. Thank goodness for a roomate who had the exact same camera and battery charger!

I took 1000 pictures in 6 days in Rome, and that doesn't count the ones I erased on the spot. In Italy, especially, you can almost just walk around holding the shutter down and never run out of things to take pictures of.

On the other hand, my sister probably only took 4 pictures a day when she went to Japan. When she got home, my mother wanted to kill her.

There are a number of ways to send pictures home from Europe, which have been discussed on the helpline several times. Just use the search box in the upper right corner.

Melanie, I would suggest getting several extra media cards for your trip, not just one or two. I've always believed that the most expensive picture is the one you DON'T take. Lost photo opportunities are awful. And it'd cost a lot more to go back again to get a shot you didn't take the first time than it would to take lots of shots the first time.

I don't know what kind of media card you're using, but if you watch sales at places like ecost.com or bhphotovideo.com you can find 2GB, 4GB and 8GB cards on sale. I got a couple 8GB 133x cards for around $55 each.

You could probably grab several cards, use them on the trip, then sell them on Ebay when you get back for most of what you spent.

My husband is a photoing fool....He's good though...so I'm patient.

There are websites like photo bucket and snapfish that might be a good resource.