Over the weekend, Ryan found himself re-organizing our photos so that we could make the most out of using iPhoto. Some of you will remember our article comparing iPhoto with Windows Photo Gallery and how we still prefer Windows Photo Gallery to iPhoto. We mentioned that our complaints were likely because we are used to the ways of Windows, but that in general, we like control over how things are organized and iPhoto somewhat takes away that privilege. It took him quite a bit of time to import and label the photos with keywords (tags) in iPhoto which is probably why we have photos on our mind.
In all we have about 6,500 photos that Ryan was working with which leads us to our next poll. How many digital photos are stored on your computer? Taking photos is so convenient these days thanks to digital cameras and so people tend to take more photos than they would if they were using film.
New Poll: How Many Digital Photos Are Stored On Your Computer?
- 1-500
- 501-1000
- 1001-2000
- 2001-3000
- 3001-4000
- 4001-5000
- 5001-10,000
- 10,001-15,000
- 15,001-20,000
- 20,001-25,000
- 25,001-30,000
- 30,001+
- I don’t store photos on my computer
You can either cast your vote below if you have Flash enabled, or you can vote in the sidebar.
Previous Poll Wrap-Up
We suspected that some of you would have thousands upon thousands of songs, but we didn’t expect that the number one answer to our last poll asking “how many songs are in your music collection” would be “30,001+.” Seventeen percent of you (71 votes) said that you have over 30,000 songs! Now that’s a lot of music! Coming in a close 2nd place was another seventeen percent of you (68 votes) who said that you had between 5,001- and 15,000 songs which is still a lot of music. In third place was fourteen percent of you (58 votes) who said you had between 0 and 500 songs.
The real question should be: “how do you backup the 30,000+ photos stored on your computer!
Mostly have pics of a friend and I…I don’t do photography.
15,000 – 20,000 here, but that’s including many doubles because I’ve started shooting both in RAW and JPEG. Not so bad, I thought I had more. Still using 65GB though, I’m thinking about buying an extra external harddisk for backup.
Get a pair of 8gb flash drives. Or get a cheap external HD.
Really, that’s not that many photos size wise. I’d estimate that it’s somewhere around ~10-20gb.
Did you read my comment? I got to 65GB with less photos than him. No way that’s 10-20GB, unless it’s just photos from a low MP phone camera
External harddisk is the way to go imo. Especially if you shoot RAW, where the size of 1 photo can get up to 20MB.
Flickr? Since I got my account in January I’ve been trawling 6 years of archives (15-20 grand) titling and tagging photos, slowly building up my Flickr account. Should be done by the end of summer.
M1ke, I’ve been looking at the same solution, but got stuck at the question: How will I get it out of Flickr if I ever want to move or back it up elsewhere? As far as I know, you cannot mass-download the original files from Flickr and I don’t really feel like doing it file-by-file with over 15,000 photos
Did you find a solution for this?
@Change
Try using FlickrDown.
@Anonymous
Hmm, looks like a good solution, but it worries me that it’s not officially supported by Flickr. Looking at the amount of releases, it looks like you’re in trouble once the developer decides to call it quits. Not sure if I’d like to depend on that..
I’ve about 16k photos (about 75GB) on my local machine, synced to two Terastation NAS, and uploaded to Picasa Web Storage. You have to pay Google extra for the storage, you only get 1 GB for free – but you can download full-res albums as a single zip…
There’s actually a few good solutions for doing this:
[cybernetnews.com]
As long as Flickr continues to be popular there will always be developers creating ways to retrieve images from the service. So I don’t think it’s something you really need to worry about.
Huh, I didn’t realize you can download whole albums as a single ZIP file on Picasa. That’s pretty nice.
Thanks for that link Ryan, nice overview on that page! You have a good point about the popularity of Flickr.. you’ve just made me doubt about getting a Pro account again
I’ve been doubting between Flickr, Amazon S3, Google, ADrive, Mozy and some others.
The main reason that I like Flickr is that they make it easy to share photos with family members without them needing an account. I can generate a “guest pass” that is a specialized hyperlink that I can send to people. If I want that link can be restricted to one set of photos so that they can’t even see everything I’ve posted. I can also retract that link at anytime which essentially kills it off… useful in case it starts getting spread around or whatever. So its the photo sharing features that I love the most with Flickr (I keep all my photos private), plus the fact that that they offer unlimited bandwidth and storage is extremely nice.