It’s time to reveal the results of our most recent reader poll which asked how many photos our readers take in an average week.
The poll was responded to by 50,142 readers and here are the results.
All in all given that our site is read by 3.5 million visitors a month – there’s a lot of images being taken every month by our community (if someone wants to do the sums and work out how many do let us know in comments)!
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26 Responses to “How Many Photos Do We Take Each Week? [POLL]” - Add Yours
July 6th, 2011 at 6:25 am
Anywhere from 581.91 million to 948.99 million images per week.
Wow thats a lot!
July 6th, 2011 at 6:27 am
^Oh I should add, its for 3.5 million readers.^
And the max number can be even higher depending on how many photos are taken beyond the 1501 per week for the top 4%.
July 6th, 2011 at 6:37 am
and how many do we keep ?
July 6th, 2011 at 7:13 am
I make it in excess of 765 million … am a bit sleepy though, would like a second opinion.
July 6th, 2011 at 7:18 am
I need to be in the photo storage business! I know that I have 14TB of storage on my computers….
July 6th, 2011 at 7:22 am
According to my rough calculations: Using the minimum amount in each category, the 50-thousand respondents, as a group, take an average of 8.3 million photos per week (36 million per month.) Extrapolated to 3.5 million visitors works out to be in the neighborhood of 2.5 billion photos per month… minimum.
That’s a lot of shutter actuations!
July 6th, 2011 at 8:25 am
I literally have over 10k images on my external hard drive, dedicated expressly to photo storage. Can you believe I’ve already deleted a LOT of really bad ones?! The remainder aren’t fantastic (obviously,) but I can’t bring myself to axe any more of them…
July 6th, 2011 at 8:29 am
@Antony : the real question is not how many do we keep, but how many should we keep!
And for the number, it’s at least 581,910,000 (by taking the lower number for each range, we have an average of 166.26 by person).
July 6th, 2011 at 8:34 am
The number should be 581,910,001 (I missed the poll).
July 6th, 2011 at 9:42 am
It appears i am in the 6 percentile….I typically take over 500 when I go out shooting….which is at least once a week…and I usually keep about 30-50% of them.
July 6th, 2011 at 9:47 am
@Xavier
I’m a bit confused by your calculation (or maybe I’m confused by my own).
I multiplied each percentage by 50,142 (because Mr. Rowse does not clarify if those 3.5mil people per month are /distinct/ visitors though we could guess that they are). I then multiplied the lower number for each range by the number of people in each range, and added up the results. This gave me 58,031,210 pictures per week (for this 50k sample of visitors) and an average of 1157.34 pictures per person per week.
: /
Anyway…
Peace,
Ems
July 6th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Minimum 50142 Photos
Percentage Photos Respondents per Week
4% 0 2,006 0
14% 1 7,020 7,020
11% 11 5,516 60,672
16% 21 8,023 168,477
17% 51 8,524 434,731
15% 101 7,521 759,651
11% 251 5,516 1,384,421
6% 501 3,009 1,507,269
2% 1001 1,003 1,003,843
4% 1501 2,006 3,010,526
100% 50,142 8,336,609
Average 166.26
I agree in most parts with Xavier
July 6th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Sorry about that obviously tables dont work here
July 6th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
Wow in excess of 1501+ per week !
I need these peoples names so that if I see any of there cameras in the classifieds I avoid them like the plague. lol
July 7th, 2011 at 12:35 am
I think some of us might have an obbession with taking photos. Because i know, if I see something interesting I’m not going to just take one photo of it, I’ll take up to a hundred at the most, so that later on when I review them, I’ll be sure to have at least 1 good one. Do others agree with me? It’s crazy that some people take 15 hundred pictures a week, they must have a lot of free time to take pictures. Good poll though.
July 7th, 2011 at 1:33 am
I don’t know if it’s free time. I always imagine if someone is taking 1500+, they’re on a job. Like a wedding photographer.
July 7th, 2011 at 9:14 am
If I use an averaging approach, and I assume that the average person in the 1501+ category takes 1750 photos per week, I find that the users of this website take:
800 million photos/week
41.6 billion photos/year
July 7th, 2011 at 11:10 am
Tables now add-up to 100% – all in order.
My friends take a lot less photos than me despite a three of them having better cameras than me (Canon 550D, 600D, and 5D). When I take shots I normally make sure I get a couple, otherwise a dozen+ for unique moments. If you’ve spent thousands on gear over the years then I know how easy it is to get carried away and experiment.
I take most photos on holiday (1000-2000 per week) otherwise 50 a week is common on locations nearby. – even a 8GB+16GB CFIV card isn’t enough with RAW (10Mps) and you can’t beat the quality. As image sensors improve in pixel-rate: I am already worried about storage since I have had to buy a replacement external HDD (2x1TB for RAID-1 backup) because my old 500GB HDD was 90% full.
Could DPS do a review on the best backup solutions available for home users who require peace of mind, please
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How many of those edit those photos I wonder?
What has become a chore from returning on holiday is editing the all the RAW images afterwords, all the locations differ heavily which defeats batch processing. A better camera than my decent Canon 400D would help keep light levels consistent but can’t afford it after buying Adobe CS5.
July 7th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
Take about 350-400 a week on average ( mainly weekends when I have time ) keep about 5-10, sometimes less. I think the most I shot was a weekend camping about 2 months ago, somewhere I had never been before and I racked up around 3500 shots in 3 days. They were all RAW and I was lucky I had my laptop with additional external HD to get them all home. I think I kept about 12-20 of those, which is a really poor ratio I know!
July 7th, 2011 at 10:50 pm
at 5mb a picture, that comes to over 152 PETABYTES a year just for DPS!!! HOLY SMOKES that’s a lot of data…
July 8th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Heyyy….Congratulations to u n ur family.. May there be showers of blessings to u all and a li’l more to ‘Little Louis’..
July 9th, 2011 at 1:47 am
generally 51 -100/wk
if I’m going to an event or if I have a week where time is not very important then that can take it up to somewhere between 200 – 400 in one wk.
if I’m on vacation – 500 – 1000 in one wk.
July 9th, 2011 at 2:25 am
200 photos each week , in Cuba , most on Havana City and a lot of cut out
July 10th, 2011 at 4:05 am
It looks like there are three populations of responders to the survey.
The average would be 218 photos per week. I would say the populations may be casual user, pro-sumer and active Pro.
July 11th, 2011 at 12:23 am
They should do this poll again, but do it fir only as a Hobby since a lot of people take the photos for clients. Just a suggestion.
July 11th, 2011 at 3:05 am
That depends on if it is a regular work week, then before and after work, 100 to 150, outstanding weather or a project then 250 to 300. If it was a once in a life time trip to the holy sights in Israel, two eight Gb cards per day, Raw and Large jpg, for a total of 6925 in eight days. Wish I would have had two weeks instead of one.
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