Film v digital image statistics

[cowanw]

The source for this is another publication. And the way those figures were calculated for that publication are questionable at least.

Quite possibly, but even if they are wrong by 50%... Here is a more reputable post One million physical photos in one day in 2011 on Flicker

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2011/november/24-hours-in-photos

 

[rolleiman]

FWIW, I recently heard a report on the radio or TV that over a billion photos are made very day now -- of course 99.9% digital. That strikes me as exaggerated, but when you see what people do with cell phones etc on a daily basis, it's almost believable.

But where will those "billion digi photos" be in 10...20 years time?....doubtless most will have gone "corrupt". Unlike my carefully processed b&w negs from the 60's that print up as freshly as the day they were processed.

These were taken on my Rolleiflex, slowly and with thought, as a result they are valued. Very different from today's digi cameras that rattle away at ten frames a second; faster that the brain can think. Such pictures are probably just as quickly discarded, just like the cameras that produced them will be when the next "super improved whiz-bang" model comes out.

It occurs to me some photographers are concerned with pictures, others with megapixels.

 

[mauro35]

The mass production problem applies to photography quite well nowadays. I know I could instantly produce and share uncountable numbers of images of virtually whatever comes in front of my eyes at any instant, just having a simple digital device that records in fact instantly with a simple touch. Put this way it really sounds convenient and convenience is above all these days, especially for those who make money for conveniently selling billions of those mentioned devices and services for people to immediatley share their massly produced photos. And that is what people do everyday. It' s our modern convenient and often thoughtless life. This forum is the place that makes me feel good by hearing people who still want to concentrate and think and put their craft and efforts to create something meaningful in an image and that are aware how difficult that is, regardless of how convenient are the devices or methods they use. For meaningful images statistics don' t count.