dlq04

Other questions could be.... When is Enough is Enough? What's your limit? Do you ever purge photos? Do you ever Downsize?

I reached my limit a couple weeks ago. I had 11,400 photos on my Mac and a couple hundred family videos. I said to myself, This is Nuts! I've spent endless hours trying to determine what is REALLY worth saving and have gone over the complete file several times. My goal was 5,000. Right now I am at 5,300, so I have deleted 6,100 photos!!! I still have all the videos to go.

I really had to ask myself what's important and what will matter to my family after Donna & I are gone. It was very tedious but I am really glad with what's left.

Lainey

I have no idea how many photos I have. I know my PC capacity is getting used up. I moved many over to the external hard drive. I have to delete the backups on that drive and keep only one or two current ones, as too many and I come close to running out of room on the drive.

Of all the photos I take, I don't have a high percentage of real keepers. I too need to weed out big time.............someday.

Most likely the only pics that anyone (son and his family) might want would be of the grandkids, and they are posing for fewer and fewer photos these days.

Morris

We have no kids, so no one will want our photos. We are trying to scan a few hundred out of thousands and toss the rest. That does not consider the thousands we have already as digital photos.

windhund116

I purge them off the memory cards, before D/L to computer. Even then, I prolly have over 50 gigs of photo and audio files on my HD. This is nearly 20 years of digital photos.

boltonblue

sagans worth.
I know on our colorado trip and our canyon trip we averaged a photo per mile and went thousands of miles.
it is funny to see how photo resolution has changed over time from little 1 megapixel 200k images to 13 meg a shot.

skunkworks

I only keep a fraction of my photos, yet there’s about 300GB used on my hard drives (don’t know how many digital photos that equals). Higher megapixel cameras can really chew up storage quickly. I’m using a 4TB external hard drive that helps ease the pain.

Get this…Canon has created a 250-megapixel CMOS camera sensor. The sensor, which is APS-H size (29×20mm), packs a resolution of 19580×12600. By comparison, the highest-resolution commercial DSLR camera—the Canon 5DS and 5DS R has an image sensor with "just" 50.6 megapixels, on a much larger full-frame (36×24mm) sensor. The widely used Nikon D810 has a 36-megapixel (36×24mm) full-frame sensor, and the Sony Alpha a99 II DSLR has a 42-Megapixel (36×24mm) full-frame Sensor.

windhund116

Gary, I put my bid in for a Japanese version of the Sony A9, coming out in late May. So, it's onto full-frame format. But, at only 20.4 megapixels.

My PIC folders says 25.5 gigs = about 50,792 Files. Many are simple JPEG or GIF files of amplifier schematics. But, a LOT of amplifier, guitar, vacation photos. From my 4 megapixel Canon Powershot days to now.

jukngene

14,761, but some are duplicates. Time to start weeding!

skunkworks

It appears that the A9 focuses on speed, and not so much ultra resolution, which makes sense, considering Sony is going after sports photographers. From what I’ve read it has a 20fps continuous shooting ability, 1/32,000 shutter speed and a 693-point phase detection auto-focus that covers the majority of your frame. I hope that it has a huge buffer because I’m not certain that most memory cards could keep up that rate of continuous shooting in RAW mode. I’m certain that you’ll be pleased with your new camera...like all Sony owners.

My RAW images average ~ 30MB (about 5.5 MB for JPEG) and my Canon 5D starts to stumble after 15 continuous RAW images at 7-FPS. Never tried, but I doubt It would stumble if I shot JPEG.

dlq04

Gene I purchased the app Duplicate Photo Fixer Pro for one dollar. It came highly recommended from a source I trust. Here's a video on how to use it. It scanned my 11,000 photos in just a couple minutes.


One word of caution when deleting. If you have cropped an original such as group photo to pull out several face photos for each person in the group - something I did a lot of for my genealogy records - it treats each photo as being a duplicate of the original. So in that case, I did not want to delete any of them.

My 5,000 photos = 30 GBs. File size in that since was never an issue. I've got 90% of my Mac's memory still available. It's was the large volume of photos that I found disturbing.