On 2011-08-01 22:44, Bran Everseeking wrote:
For the first time since I started shooting a DSLR I have shot through a card and more in a single session. [...] I am not sure that overcoming the film shooters restraint is a good thing but milestones are intresting.
It depends on what you're shooting, and your goals for shooting it. When I shoot auto races, I'm trying to get at least three usable shots for every car that gets on track. That's basically impossible, but it's the goal. And it means about six to ten shots of each car, if I succeed, based on my long term "hit rate".
At a pro race, between 40 and 80 cars enter the main race. But there are also four to six support races, each with anywhere from twenty to sixty entrants. At an amateur race, it's worse. There can be more than twenty CLASSES with entrants. Some classes field one or two entrants, and some field sixty or seventy. So you're talking thousands of photos, and more than half will go in the bit bucket on the first cull.
And that's not even counting the stuff you really want, the exciting stuff, that's not just a handful of cars in the frame "going fast". The "plowing" shots and the "family in the paddock" shots. The stuff you've got to be "Johnny on the Spot" to get.
I have about 40GB of SD cards, and even with the K10 (my newest body) I can fill all of them in a 12-hour day. [I /do/ shoot RAW+JPG for operational convenience.] A 2GB card can last as little as a couple of minutes, if the action on track is hot. For a week long shoot, like I do every year for the Petit le Mans, I carry along an external 360GB drive to warehouse stuff until the event is over and I can cull it. I need to get a couple more of those things, come to think of it.
On the other hand, more than once, I've sent a /gratis/ 8x10 print to a racer, pro and amateur, only to receive a nice note that it's the best shot anyone has gotten of them. Which is damned gratifying and ego boosting, but it's not why I do it.
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