> At a generous 5 MB per photo, that's 24,000 photos. You would have to take 65 photos, every day, for a year straight to reach those numbers. That's 1 photo every 15 minutes of your waking life for a year (assuming 8 hours sleep).
Is that generous? A RAW file from my SLR is about 20 MBytes. Many SLR's have larger RAW files. But using my "conservative" estimate that's 16 photos a day.
Considering the average photographer can snap 10 photos in about 3 seconds during a photo shoot this seems very reasonable to me.
Yeah, my RAWs are 29 MBytes. Assume a conservative 1000 photos per holiday (it would actually be higher if I wasn't in the habit of discarding some shots immediately), then you're looking at 28 GBytes.
If I were a pro photographer, shooting events like weddings or sporting occasions, I could easily hit 1000 shots in a day. I believe my company has about 10 TBytes of photography directly related to what we do, and that's from older DSLRs with smaller RAW files.
Is that generous? A RAW file from my SLR is about 20 MBytes. Many SLR's have larger RAW files. But using my "conservative" estimate that's 16 photos a day.
Considering the average photographer can snap 10 photos in about 3 seconds during a photo shoot this seems very reasonable to me.