Well, let's see here too....
I was speaking of the casual shooterr who goes out on a shooting day
wandering the city or country. Yes, I know pros can squeeze off 5 fps or more,
but they're not taking any time for each shot.
The Little League photog. shooting 750 kids is probably not doing the
shoot alone, nor with only 1 camera. There just wouldn't be enogh time in one
evening for that. I've done my LL, and it only has about 350- 400 kids and you
need different backdrops with a different camera set up for the team and the
individual shots.
Tha Nascar / football/ sports shooter is also relying heavily on the
automatic camera settings and squeezing off 20 or so for each "scene", so
that's
not a fair comparison either.
What sports photogs "can' do is not representative of what most of them
"do" do.
(Oh-Oh I hope do-do get past the censors...)
George S.
agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Well, let's see...
- Taking team and individual player photos for the Little League
can net you about 750 pictures in an evening. (provided you have
a couple of assistants and plenty of battery power for the
flash). With Digital, you can double that picture count because
you'll take two or more per kid.
- An average wedding shoot FILM BASED easily can consume 200-300
frames. With digital, double that just because you can without
impunity. Most wedding pros around here are shooting around
700-800 per wedding in digital now.
- Shooting an event such as an awards banquet with multiple
speakers can yield 500+ pictures.
- Sports shooters can shoot (on single frame advance or maximum
burst of three) 750+ pictures during a basketball game without
trying. 2000+ if they are finger heavy or running multiple,
slaved cameras. One legendary SI photographer was rumoured to
have shot 20,000 in a single basketball game.
- Racing photographers can shoot a couple thousand pictures
during a single race. In the case of Nascar, where you have 43
cars on the track you'll get at least 50 pictures of every car
and pictures of every combination of cars on the track.Granted,
900f the picture are trash, due to misfocus, motion, bad
framing, etc.
- Fashion photographers? Well, 1000 in a day is child's play.
- Wildlife photographers? The top dogs in the industry used to
shoot 75+ rolls a day BEFORE digital. 75x36=2700. 'Course,
that wasn't every day, but when the opportunities presented
themselves, they required an assistant that did nothing but
change rolls.
- Hobbiest Landscape photographers? Ok, you got me there.
AG-Schnozz
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