Since getting my new Mac mini I’ve started the process of migrating my files from my Windows laptop over to the Mac. Not only is it a learning experience, to understand the Mac OS and file system, various applications and getting used to the user interface, it’s also a good chance to do some digital recycling. Having just finished copying all 77.45GB worth of photos onto my new Mac mini, I’ve got some 31,127 photos and videos to organise.There’s bound to be 1000′s that are just rubbish which I can just delete.
That’s some number come to think of it. It’s like taking 15 photos per day!! Imagine the cost of that if we were all still using film cameras. In fact, let’s work that out. Let me see… an AGFA ISO 200 36 exposure roll of film is going for £6.30 on Amazon. Developing a 36 roll film (+ free CD and delivery!) costs £6 from Fujifilm. So works out at £0.34/photo which means 31,127 photos would have cost me £10,583.18 if I were to have taken all of them using a standard 35mm film camera. Ok, those numbers are probably slightly inflated as I spent a whole 1 minute searching for them on google but digital photography has allowed me to explore and fall in love with a hobby that I would probably not have taken up if the costs were really that high.
