If anything I think it proves the point. 85,000 shots. That’s an average of 6000+ per day if he shot for 14 days. Sounds like a lot of data flow and editing either in-camera or later on a computer. If he’s a stringer then he’s having to do that on the fly and send his selects to an editor or client right away. If someone else sends good or better pix sooner than another photographer he/she is not going to sell his images or might not get hired again. 6000 shots per day is a LOT to chimp (edit as you go) or review later on the camera or laptop. Twice as much storage needed for larger sensors (cards and hard drives). And uploading even a fourth of those is still a ton of images, data, time. Think about it: if it took 10 seconds each to look through 1500 shots (or 2.5 seconds to look through each of the 6000. Just spitballing here.) that’s 15,000 seconds. 250 minutes. That’s 4+ hours each day JUST spent editing them down and not retouching or transmitting them anywhere. File size, camera processing speed, computer processing speed, etc are all important factors.
