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How many photos are necessary?
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a $6000 camera can take horrible looking photos. It's not the gear it's how you use it.
That puts you 4 per year ahead of me…..
My great shots are a rounding error in my collection of mediocrity on my storage.
6510 in 18 years!?!?! I took 940 LAST WEEK. Your powershot has a feature many of my cameras don’t - it fits in your pocket. Use that to your advantage and carry it everywhere for when the mood strikes.
To be clear of the 940 i took, 939 of them weren’t worth the battery power needed to take them in the first place.
If you want Firewire on your Mac, you can certainly make it happen.
When I dock my M1 at my desk, I do have a Firewire port. Often there's scanner connected to it. Sometimes it's an external hard drive. Sometimes, just for kicks, it's a 2nd generation iPod.
Every time I see or hear the word powershot, I always mentally associate it with these threads. I don’t know if that’s good or bad…
If you want to get real, buy a Leica or some 4/3. You are wasting your time snapping away with mister powershot sir.
i don’t disagree with you, but kind of a wide variation in your suggestions there.
No one has said it's not.
What frustrates I think a lot of people is that it's not the end all, be all, perfect camera where you seem to get offended if anyone says otherwise.
You can buy a fairly inexpensive FW adapter...... I did that some years ago when I realized that I was going to need to get all of my important images off my external drives which had only FW ports and my then-current Mac no longer had a FW port. It worked out just fine.
My bad, I went off after reading powershot again and again.
On g*d this thread singlehandedly put me off of the canon brand for the foreseeable future.
T'is a very sophisticated troll or at least I will chose to delude myself thinking so.
trigger words are Powershot, tapes, camcorder and manual ?
and frogs, and Photoshop, and...
I don't burst shots anymore. Love taking photographs but not so fond of editing them.
So after a full day i usually have 1-10 images, i mostly know the result already when pulling the trigger so to speak.
One exception thou, when testing a new lens. Then there can be hundreds of test images just to try it out a bit.
There is no wrong or right here, just personal preference.
Do what you want, don’t mind others.
Ericwn wrote: "And value is entirely personal and everyone is different."
Yup.
A lot depends on the shooting situation, too. When I am shooting wildlife doing something interesting out on the lake I am going to be firing away a lot more extensively than I do when I am shooting a macro or closeup tabletop scene indoors with much more control over what is happening. In either situation, afterwards, I review the images and select the ones which I feel are the best and that's that. I have already made the financial investment in the type and capacity of a given memory card so that is not an issue. I can shoot images to my heart's content and use up the capacity of said card or not, it really doesn't matter in the end, as long as I have managed to get the shots which nicely captured whatever I was shooting and which mean something to me, even if they don't mean diddly squat to anyone else.
Yup.
A lot depends on the shooting situation, too. When I am shooting wildlife doing something interesting out on the lake I am going to be firing away a lot more extensively than I do when I am shooting a macro or closeup tabletop scene indoors with much more control over what is happening. In either situation, afterwards, I review the images and select the ones which I feel are the best and that's that. I have already made the financial investment in the type and capacity of a given memory card so that is not an issue. I can shoot images to my heart's content and use up the capacity of said card or not, it really doesn't matter in the end, as long as I have managed to get the shots which nicely captured whatever I was shooting and which mean something to me, even if they don't mean diddly squat to anyone else.