Tuesday, October 10, 2017

My Photo and Video Stats

I have a large external hard drive onto which I am able to fit my entire collection of digital photos and videos. In browsing some of the administrator functions associated with the external hard drive, I came across this page:



I noticed that as of today, I have a grand total of 110,118 pictures and 3,909 videos. I am assuming that "pictures" is inclusive of .JPG as well as raw (e.g., Canon's .CR2 format) and photoshop (.PSD) file. Soon I will be adding .HEIC files to my collection, as iOS 11 has replaced .JPG with .HEIC as its new default image file format--I assume that these files will fall under the "pictures" tally as well.

Finally, I assume that "videos" is inclusive of .MOV (the native format in Apple devices), .MTS (the native AVCHD format in my Canon camcorder), and .MP4 (the common format that is almost universally compatible with modern devices like desktops, laptops, mobile phones, tablets, and TV set top boxes). If so, then those numbers should be representative of my complete collection. A final note... while iOS 11 will be replacing the H.264 codec with HEVC, I believe videos will continue to have a .MOV container, so the file extension should not change.

So those are my stats. Do you know how many photos and videos you have in your collection?