Rolling E-3's

[keepright]

I rolled my E-3 yesterday -- the shot counter passed the 9999 mark and is now on its second lap. I bought it November 17, 2007, making it only four months and twenty-six days old, give or take a few.

Only 139,728 shots left on its expected service life...

Anyone else pass the 10,000 shots mark? 20? What's your camera's counter at?

[craftysnapper]

More importantly how many of the 10,000 were keepers!

[keepright]

Oh, at least five or six keepers...

Even though my counter has rolled over, Lightroom tells me that I have 9111 photos from my E-3 in my library. (Some are elsewhere, some were test shots that never made it off the card.) Of those photos:

6294 (69%) have a 1-star rating. This means they don't suck and are reasonably unique.
1051 (11.5%) got a two-star ranking, meaning that they were worth considering for further editing or otherwise significant. I suppose that makes them 'keepers'.
34 (0.37%) got a three-star rating, which is what I give to photos when I genuinely don't think that someone else in the same place with the same gear would have been able to take the same photo.
5 (0.055%) rank four stars, which is the highest rating I've used so far. And I'm not convinced that two of them deserve it.

[alert_bri]

Hi Matthew,

Originally Posted by keepright

Oh, at least five or six keepers...

Even though my counter has rolled over, Lightroom tells me that I have 9111 photos from my E-3 in my library. (Some are elsewhere, some were test shots that never made it off the card.) Of those photos:

6294 (69%) have a 1-star rating. This means they don't suck and are reasonably unique.
1051 (11.5%) got a two-star ranking, meaning that they were worth considering for further editing or otherwise significant. I suppose that makes them 'keepers'.
34 (0.37%) got a three-star rating, which is what I give to photos when I genuinely don't think that someone else in the same place with the same gear would have been able to take the same photo.
5 (0.055%) rank four stars, which is the highest rating I've used so far. And I'm not convinced that two of them deserve it.

How about posting those top 5 here... I'm intrigued to see them now!

Kind Regards

Brian

[keepright]

I won't post them all, but here's a link to my personal favourites gallery. The first five are the ones shot with the E-3.

Here's my favourite of the collection: E-3, 7-14 @ 7mm & f/8, 10s, iso100.

[alert_bri]

Obviously, practice makes perfect! Beautiful work in your gallery...

I need to get to work rolling over my E-3 too!

Kind Regards

Brian

[keepright]

Thanks very much for the wildly overgenerous compliment.

The full gallery is the result of over 20,000 photos taken since last July, including a three-week trip to Australia and California, and a two-week road trip between Reno, Las Vegas, and Omaha. Four of the 16 even predate that; the elephant photo is from almost two years ago. That gallery's not so much a product of skill as it is prolific shooting and extensive editing.

[Paul Shields]

Love that HDR treatment Matthew. It has the 7-14mm stamped all over it .

I'm not sure where I'm up to with the E-3, but probably not far behind in nbr of shots. It took a month or two to get used to but now I just feel it's the best DSLR I've ever used. E-3 + great lenses is a perfect combo .