Too Much Clicking: Actuations By Year

As a reminder of how much extra “clicking” we do with our digital cameras, below is a list of the number of actuations I have made per year. Some of the years are too many! However, this number has trended down in recent years so perhaps I am headed in the right direction.

In addition, there is a lot of merit to considering the incredible amount of strorage required for all of these RAW files. It would be wonderful to eventually let go and delete the images I really do not need to keep. Those are ones that are not Picks, Personal, or carry some information that I need to retain.

Without further ado, here is the list:

• 2003: 53
• 2004: 334
• 2005: 189
• 2006: 6,207
• 2007: 13,643
• 2008: 7,403
• 2009: 11,508
• 2010: 6,927
• 2011: 6,354
• 2012: 3,889
• 2013: 5,441
• 2014: 8,527
• 2015: 9,900
• 2016: 16,805
• 2017: 11,586
• 2018: 12,179
• 2019: 7,910
• 2020: 2,025
• 2021: 3,358
• 2022: 2,062
• 2023: 9,680
• 2024: 6,976 (as of December 4)