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01/06/2007 10:29:37 PM · #1 |
I took photos of three basketball games today.
1051 photos total, all on one set of 4AA batteries.
I would guess that 90% of the photos were manual focus so the camera did not use as much power as it would have if AF would have been on the whole time.
I am more then happy with how long the batteries lasted.
I did have a second set charged up and ready to go for the day.
I was wondering if one extra set of batteries was going to be enough and then I did not even have to use the extra ones, lol.. :)
1051 photos is also a record for me.
Basketball tournaments today and my sons team played three games.
The next two weekends will be the same thing, three games each Saturday.
Whats the most photos you have ever taken in a day?
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01/06/2007 11:34:30 PM · #2 |
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I don't know my max in any one day, but since September when I bought my Pentax K100D, I've shot about 3500 images, which averages about 32 photos per day.
What does everyone else have for a daily average?
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Message edited by author 2007-01-07 00:57:15.
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01/07/2007 12:09:47 AM · #3 |
I've shot a number of 1400+ days when shooting dog shows. These were fairly busy days with agility, herding, obediance, comformation and general stuff going on. I shoot in raw too, so all of those shots had to be converted afterwards too. After one week long show I had over 20 gigs of images stored on a 40 gig Image Tank that I use while shooting to dump my images as I fill up a CF card, a external 40 gig drive and a copy stored on the laptop drive. My more normal number is around the 900 to 1200 range depending on the activity.
Mike
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01/07/2007 02:19:54 AM · #4 |
That is impressive preformance.
Another interesting battery is the Sanyo Eneloop - they hold their charge up to a year or so... unlike other NiMH which are flat within a couple of weeks of being charged. They make a great backup set...
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01/07/2007 12:03:52 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by MikeJ:
I've shot a number of 1400+ days when shooting dog shows. These were fairly busy days with agility, herding, obediance, comformation and general stuff going on. I shoot in raw too, so all of those shots had to be converted afterwards too. After one week long show I had over 20 gigs of images stored on a 40 gig Image Tank that I use while shooting to dump my images as I fill up a CF card, a external 40 gig drive and a copy stored on the laptop drive. My more normal number is around the 900 to 1200 range depending on the activity.
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Wow, all in raw!
Sounds like that would be a lot of work to convert them all.
I did all jpg and it was still a lot of work for me to go through each game and just delete the bad ones.
Between the three games I ended up keeping around 350 photos.
We had hours to kill between games so I took the laptop with and dumped the memory cards onto the laptop after each game. That was kind of a pain too. Think I will just pick up another card or two.
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01/07/2007 03:32:19 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by lakota:
Originally posted by MikeJ:
I've shot a number of 1400+ days when shooting dog shows. These were fairly busy days with agility, herding, obediance, comformation and general stuff going on. I shoot in raw too, so all of those shots had to be converted afterwards too. After one week long show I had over 20 gigs of images stored on a 40 gig Image Tank that I use while shooting to dump my images as I fill up a CF card, a external 40 gig drive and a copy stored on the laptop drive. My more normal number is around the 900 to 1200 range depending on the activity.
Mike |
Wow, all in raw!
Sounds like that would be a lot of work to convert them all.
I did all jpg and it was still a lot of work for me to go through each game and just delete the bad ones.
Between the three games I ended up keeping around 350 photos.
We had hours to kill between games so I took the laptop with and dumped the memory cards onto the laptop after each game. That was kind of a pain too. Think I will just pick up another card or two. |
Yes, before I upgraded my computer, I'd start the conversion and then go to bed or go out to eat or something that took about 4 hours. That was when I use to convert everything so I could create the jpegs to put up on a web gallery for people to view. Once I upgraded to a 10D and was able to extract the embedded jpeg it became a lot easier. With my 1DMKII the embedded jpegs are even better. I love being able to get about 1400 images on one battery with the 1DMKII as well. With the 10D I always carried around about 9 charged BP511 batteries to make sure I had enough. :D
Shooting in raw is also why my disk capacity kept climbing until I now have about a terabyte and half of harddisk space on my main computer. I'm glad harddisks are cheap. :D
Mike
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01/07/2007 04:27:17 PM · #7 |
Off topic response, but....
Those 2500 mA/hr batteries are slightly larger diameter than the 2200 mA/hr. ones.
This means that they don't fit in my pepper grinder, which is cramping my style. I'm sure Mario & Emeril would agree!
Happy New Year!
OTOH, matbe this fits the Posting While Intoxicated thread...
Message edited by author 2007-01-07 16:29:43. |
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