I’ve been taking (digital) photos since 1999. I’ve got 350k unique images, but more than a million unique SHAs.
I’ll maybe take a couple a day when out for a walk. 10-50 for an event. 20-30 for a big family gathering. My kids were always a good excuse to pull out the camera. It all adds up.
If you shoot with a big camera, people frequently opt for “JPEG+RAW” which is two image files every time you tap the shutter release. That adds up.
Also, if you use(d) google photos, or any other service that downscaled your originals, and then _also_ directly take a backup of your DCIM directory off of your phone, there’s another source of duplicate images.
I’ll maybe take a couple a day when out for a walk. 10-50 for an event. 20-30 for a big family gathering. My kids were always a good excuse to pull out the camera. It all adds up.
If you shoot with a big camera, people frequently opt for “JPEG+RAW” which is two image files every time you tap the shutter release. That adds up.
Also, if you use(d) google photos, or any other service that downscaled your originals, and then _also_ directly take a backup of your DCIM directory off of your phone, there’s another source of duplicate images.
I wrote more about this here: https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-deduplica...