The Average Number of Photos I’ve Taken For Every Camera I’ve owned on a Bar Chart
I recently found out that Photos on macOS let me sort photos by cameras so I did a little data analysis. My favorite chart is an estimate of how many photos I’ve kept from these cameras on an average month.
Note that these are not the number of photos I’ve taken, it’s a count of the photos I have kept. I am a pretty fastidious scrubber and the only photos I keep are the ones I’d like to see in the future. In other words, this is not about how often I use a camera, it’s how many photos I’ve kept.
I expected to see a chasm between the phone and standalone cameras but was surprised to see things line up so neatly. If you look at just the phone cameras, the average photo count doubled from the 4S to the 5S then doubled again from the 5S to 6S before settling down.
The 3GS and 4S had terrible cameras so I understand the jump between the 4S and the 5S. I don’t really understand the jump between the 5S and the 6S. If only because the difference between the quality of photos aren’t as obvious.
My hypothesis is that I’ve had a multiple behavioral changes along the way. With the 5S I learned to take more photos on the go and started to take photos that I wouldn’t usually have taken with a regular camera.
With the 6S I learned to leave my other camera at home during vacations. This would explain why the 6S numbers went over my vacation cameras. The everyday camera and the vacation camera have become the same, at least for some vacations.
It probably won’t be long before I finally take my last shot on my trusty RX100. But not yet. It still does a lot better in low light and is inconspicuous enough for fast street shots. Dear RX100, you’re not dead yet. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
