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How many rolls of film do you usually use on a weeks vacation? 10 is my all time high.

A rule of thumb is three a week.

It's nice to see that you still use film and none of this digital nonsense, most laudable.

mk, Why do you think digital is nonsense? I really like it. Quick and easy to download and equally easy to share on ofoto or shutterfly. I can get prints of just the ones I like. I am sure I save a fortune.

I seem to average about a roll a day, plus 100+ of digital for a week or so. Even with having taken some really nice digital shots, I still like to come home and have my film developed!

Not to mention that storing all the digital photos on your computer is MUCH easier to do. You know where they are at, you look at them more frequently, it is MUCH more convenient. Plus you can store hundreds of photos on today's small chips....

On a one week trip to Paris which included one day in Normandy, my girlfriend and I took 12 rolls of film plus about 400 digi pics! I still think that wasn't enough!

While eventually I'll succumb to digital, I still shoot film, both prints and slides, and probably shoot an average of 10 rolls total during a week's vacation.

For me it depends on the location and numbers have gone up since I modernised to the "digital nonsense"

Max for when I used film was 100 rolls of 36 exposure for a six week trip in India. Pretty impressive given we were travelling with only carry on luggage - amzaing how much space that amount of film takes

Max for digital would be about 500 shots in a day - in South Africa

Just a couple rolls, and I purchase postcards to supplement my own photos.

My husband has the digital camera with him in Athens so I'm going to have to use the 35mm in London and I'm mad!! After swearing up and down that I didn't want a digital camera, I have become a total convert. It's so tiny and easy to carry. No stupid rolls of film to cart around, plus I'd always run out at an inopportune time. With digi you can take tons of pics, erase ones that are no good on the spot, and you only have to develop the ones you really like. Easy to store once they're downloaded on a CD Rom, or in the computer. Plus we hook the camera up to the TV when we get home and give our families a slide show... much better than thumbing through photos.

Anyway... we used to take about 5 rolls/week. Now we take the digital equivalent of about twice that.
Plus the technology is just so great... my husband has been sending me pics from Athens and it's so nice to get a sense of what he's experiencing as he's experiencing it. Can't wait until I get photos from the Olympic opening ceremonies!

I take about 6 rolls for a 1 week vacation dropping to 10 for a 2 week vacation.

I too have not gone digital though I'm in the computer biz. I always wonder how many people actually back-up their digital photo's properly.

I plan 1 roll per day, and throw in a disposable for handing to others to photo US in the same shot. I do have a digital camera, used it in Paris last time, and got 'satisfactory' results but I am returning to film next time and hubby can play with the digital camera.

We like different things to photogragh so maybe 8 each for two to three weeks.

My best friend and I shot 16 rolls in Italy on a 12 day trip, but now that DH and I shoot digital, I'd say we come back with about 200-300 images per 1 week trip, depending on where we go. It is nice to be able to take many shots and delete the bad ones right away.

I usually go thru 12 rolls in 10 days, I get a little snap-happy sometimes.

Anywhere between 10 to 15 rolls..Depend where I am going..

I would like to buy a digital camera for my next trip, of course, I must learn first how to use it,how to download it etc.., being a non technical person, is not an easy task for me..

On a two week vacation, I'll take between 800 - 1000 digital pics. I've found that I'm more liberal about taking that extra shot since it's not "film" that I have to pay to have developed. And I'll take pics of things like signs so I have the information after I get home.

The only disadvantage of digital is that it's time consuming to print out the pics. So I've recently been deciding which pics I want to put in my scrapbook and upload them to the SamsClub website and have them printed for $.18 per pic.

On my recent 2-week trip to Spain, I took 7 rolls of film, plus about 250 pics on the digital camera. I'm a little picture-happy too!

Karen

>...Plus we hook the camera up to the TV when we get home and give our families a slide show..<

You can also make VCR recordings of your slide show (with voice over) and give them to people who don't have computers.

One trip was 12 rolls - can't remember where I went but it must have been to a couple of different places.

Now I use a 250MB memory card. :)

I average about 1 to 1.5 rolls per day. We also take our digital, but don't use it as often as the 35 mil.

I still prefer the printed photos from regular film over digital. I guess it's due to the enjoyment I get from putting together and looking at all my travel photo albums. It just seems that it would be a pain to print out hundreds of digital shots from my computer.

One roll a day, in average.

I found some wonderful photo albums that take one letter sized picture per page. So, after each trip I go through the numerous digital photos that i have taken and pick out the best 100 to print onto letter sized paper. These go into the album.

Doesn't always work - for my last trip (Vienna, Budapest and Bratislava) I used two albums becuase I could not narrow down to 100 for all three places

Depends. In Africa, I went through at least 2 a day.

But, now that I purchased a high end digital, film is one less thing to worry about.

I used to take about three rolls a week, but I have a feeling we'll be taking a lot more now that we have a digital camera! I'm definitely less "conservative" with it. I love the fact that we can easily upload all our photos to ofoto.com and get high-quality prints... in color, black and white, or sepia, too. I'm a true convert!

I've gone from film to digital -- mostly because my pictures usually end up on the web and digital is faster:)

Let's see...
18 days in SE Asia -- 900 images [c. 50 per day]
2 weeks in Macedonia/Serbia -- 400 images [c. 29 per day]

I average about 12-15 rolls of 24 & 36 regardless where I travel. I would have thought I had more for my trips to Africa, but as it turns out I took more photos in Jordan/Egypt and in Provence. In all instances since there are two of us traveling, we manage to get an amazing amount of photos without both of us just clicking away.

As to digital, we're not there yet (can't manipulate those itty bitty tiny buttons with my long fingernails), but I recently figured out how much has been spent for rolls of film and developing for trips taken in the last 10-years. Sorry to say, film has been cheaper and fast. When we added up what a friend had paid for their digital, cost of memory cards/magic sticks, batteries, photo paper, photo ink and the time to do it all on his own - we won with film hands down.

We even get our developed film the day after arriving home - I don't need it any faster then that.

Now, I feel like a photog-loser.

Last fall, I shot 3 (count 'em, 3) rolls over 17 days in Italy.

For me, snapping photos takes away from the experience of viewing/enjoying, and since I'm lousy at it anyway, I pretty well just take photos (bad!) of travelling companions. I then buy the professionally shot postcards, throw it all into a box, and swear that some day I'll organize it all in an album.

Oh well.

L

This topic is a wonderful illustration of the variety that makes travel great. From the "digital converts" to the "digital nonsense" - from the snap-happy to those who find snapping detracts from the experience.

Variety is indeed the spice of life - though we might not agree what spice..perhaps that could be another topic.