Digital Photography Statistic: Consumers storing close to 1,000 digital images

Digital camera owners keep filling their memory cards and moving images onto their computers, CDs, DVDs, and websites. How many images has the typical household transfered from the digital cameras onto various storage media? According to the 2007 PMA U.S. Digital Imaging Survey, consumers had on average stored close to 1,000 images onto hard drives, CDs, DVDs, and the Web, by the end of 2006. This is 3 to 4 years worth of picture taking for a typical U.S. household.

In terms of specific storage methods, the average number of images stored on hard drives was reported to have been 626, slightly below the average number of images stored on CDs and DVDs (632). The average number of pictures stored on the Internet was 230. These numbers include new and mature digital camera users.

SOURCE: 2007 PMA U.S. Digital Imaging Survey, via PhotoMarketing Newsline International.