Dunno whether anyone else will find this the least bit interesting,
but it kind of amused me to figure it out. A friend asked how many
rolls to take on a 15-day trip to England and Germany, which got me
wondering how many rolls I burn in one day of shooting. She wanted
to know what an "average" person should bring, and I'm probably not
average, but it made me curious so I crunched the numbers in my
exposed-film database, and got these answers:
15 rolls in one day: once -- wedding
12 rolls in one day: once -- music festival I was asked to shoot
11 rolls in one day: twice -- weddings
8 rolls in one day: once
6 rolls in one day: ten times
5 rolls in one day: thirteen times
4 rolls in one day: (nineteen times)
The numbers for 4/day, 3/day, 2/day, and 1/day are most likely
wrong because of the number of rolls from 1997, before I started
keeping records. A lot of the 5s and 6s were at The Pennsic War
(unsurprisingly).
Note that I don't expect these numbers to be impressively high or
boringly low -- they're probably about right foe what I am: mostly
an art photographer who's had a very small number of paying gigs
as an event photographer and one paying product shoot. Obviously
way low for a "this is my day job" pro, but I'm not that (at
least not yet),
Hmm. Of course, it doesn't answer my friend's question about
how many rolls are average for a two-week trip abroad. But atleast I
entertained myself.
BTW, on behalf of my friend: how easy is it to avoid getting
one's film X-rayed at German airports?
-- Glenn
