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There are other changes as well.
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My recent trip averaged 35 a day (partially because I had not read the instruction book and was having battery problems). Usually it is closer to 50-60
We arrived on 12/6 and left the afternoon of 12/16, 11 days. 2 MVMCP's. I did NOT have a camera hanging on me all the time, in fact I think it was only 2 or 3 times when I carried it out. I did not get any fireworks pictures, and very few parade pics (my Canon A-640 broke during a parade). I took just over 1100 pictures, including just over 275 at the Mega Mouse Meet. That's the total with all 3 cameras for me, there was a day or two where I took no pictures at all
Jan, on the other hand, had her Fuji all the time and shot over 1900 pictures
Oh....
I wasn't carrying the camera all the time because I had a little one on my hip for most of the trip
We arrived on 12/6 and left the afternoon of 12/16, 11 days. 2 MVMCP's. I did NOT have a camera hanging on me all the time, in fact I think it was only 2 or 3 times when I carried it out. I did not get any fireworks pictures, and very few parade pics (my Canon A-640 broke during a parade). I took just over 1100 pictures, including just over 275 at the Mega Mouse Meet. That's the total with all 3 cameras for me, there was a day or two where I took no pictures at all
Jan, on the other hand, had her Fuji all the time and shot over 1900 pictures
Oh....
I wasn't carrying the camera all the time because I had a little one on my hip for most of the trip
I must admit, I was taken aback to see Bill's face the whole time we were around him But it was nice to see him having such a good time with his new little pal!
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I tend to take a ton of pictures myself. I think your 2GB card will be more than adequate though. One word of caution--I would make sure to use more than one card while picture taking. This way if you get home and discover a problem with your card, at least you will have some pictures of your trip on your card. It doesn't happen often but cards can go bad and this did happen to me one time. You might also do a little checking at your local Walmart, Target, etc. after Christmas--- alot of times you can pick up additional cards at very low low costs. I recently purchased a 1GB card for $15.00 at Walmart.
My record is over 1000. Which includes a lot of photos taken from our room at AKL. I had a great time watching the animals come to our room.
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Melanie
June 1985-off site/March 2004- Pop & OKW
Aug. 2004- Hurricane Charlie POR & FWCG/July 2005- Grand Villa OKW
Feb. 2006-Pop/Feb. 2007- AS Music, WL, AS Movies
Sept. 2011- Disney Med Cruise
We still have a film camera and last trip (12 days) we used a 24 exp roll each day and also came back with about 300 on our photopass. We plan on getting a digital camera for this year's trip
I took about 1000 last April and printed about 700 (7 day trip). I don't know if I'm going to scrapbook them all, though. I might try to print "collages" that I just learned to make with Picasa (Free program by Google that I downloaded off the internet). I also have about 100 pictures on a photopass CD that haven't been printed yet.
I always swear I'll take less pics, but then I take more. I just got a fancy 10.0 pixel Olympus camera for Christmas, so I know the next time we go (next Dec), I'll end up taking a bazillion pictures!
I *do* try to take different pictures each time, if possible. There are so many "hidden treasures" at Disney to take pictures of.
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I only take around 200-300 in a week. When the kids were younger I took a lot more, but now that they're older they don't like to have their pictures taken as much.
Ginny
Sept 2007 First WDW Trip All Star Music
Sept 2008 All Star Music/Jan 2010 Pop Century
Dec 2010 Summer Bay/May 2011 All Star Music/Nov 2011 Summer Bay Timeshare
Jan 2013 Old Key West
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Our last family trip I took a little over 3,000 in 10 days. However, on our no kids trip to DL last summer I only took 240 over the weekend. I suspect I'll be well over the 3K mark in June with all the extended family and doing the Sunrise Safari.
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