Mike Hollingshead
Each time I go through and delete picture files, I wonder what other people have for file size and/or image counts. Just raw/original images, not processed large TIFFs or anything.
I'm pretty much the opposite of a hoarder. Give me enough time and I won't have any images from a few years back. I'll just keep going back over past years of images and finding something I can delete. It's getting scary actually lol. Just can't stand having too many images/files to keep track of.
From what I can tell, since 2002 I've shot right around 50,000 images. I never ever bracket and I'm generally never shooting sporty type things where you fire several off you won't need later. I just shoot pretty frequently, though really never pile on the files/images each outing.
Of those 50,000 or so, I'm down to around 2,000. This is in 106 folders/outings. Thing is I've stacked some outings/dates into other folders. I also have a folder for various for each year. So the outings/dates is probably something more like 200. Which well would be down to keeping about 10 per deal/outing lol.
Total raw/original file size total is now right at 20 gigs. This from clear back to 2002. Averages out to 2.5 gigs a year lol. 04, 05, and 06 are just a smidge over 1.0 gig each.
Anyway, post your "stats" if you want. I'm sure people will find it interesting what people have or don't have. I'm just wondering how large that gets for some of you out there that shoot a lot that I doubt have a big deleting problem like I probably do. I don't learn either as someone will want to buy/license an image off my site and I'll be like, yeah, I deleted that. Then they'd pick something else and same thing, yeah I deleted that one too.
I'm pretty much the opposite of a hoarder. Give me enough time and I won't have any images from a few years back. I'll just keep going back over past years of images and finding something I can delete. It's getting scary actually lol. Just can't stand having too many images/files to keep track of.
From what I can tell, since 2002 I've shot right around 50,000 images. I never ever bracket and I'm generally never shooting sporty type things where you fire several off you won't need later. I just shoot pretty frequently, though really never pile on the files/images each outing.
Of those 50,000 or so, I'm down to around 2,000. This is in 106 folders/outings. Thing is I've stacked some outings/dates into other folders. I also have a folder for various for each year. So the outings/dates is probably something more like 200. Which well would be down to keeping about 10 per deal/outing lol.
Total raw/original file size total is now right at 20 gigs. This from clear back to 2002. Averages out to 2.5 gigs a year lol. 04, 05, and 06 are just a smidge over 1.0 gig each.
Anyway, post your "stats" if you want. I'm sure people will find it interesting what people have or don't have. I'm just wondering how large that gets for some of you out there that shoot a lot that I doubt have a big deleting problem like I probably do. I don't learn either as someone will want to buy/license an image off my site and I'll be like, yeah, I deleted that. Then they'd pick something else and same thing, yeah I deleted that one too.