I took roughly 20,000 shots (according to the camera's shutter count and a bit of informed guesswork), and kept about 6000 that I thought were worth editing.
The busiest month was May, with 819 photos added to the library, and the quietest was November, at 263.
I've found that I much prefer editing in Lightroom over Canon's DPP software. Lightroom is much more powerful in terms of its editing tools, and is substantially faster to export. It also has lens correction profiles for 3rd party lenses, which DPP does not.
DPP wins massively on initial sorting for the Canon cameras' files though - its Quick Check tool is a lot faster at parsing files for an initial cull, and it's very easy to zoom in to 100% to check details.
I've settled on a combined approach now, where I download everything from the cards onto the computer, and make an initial culling pass or two with DPP, marking files I want to keep or delete.
Once I'm happy with the final selection of keepers, I import only those files into Lightroom and make my edits there.
Unless I'm missing something in Lightroom, this is a much faster and more comfortable technique than fighting with the lightroom import window (which I find rather clunky, and where I inevitably press escape by mistake, then lose all my progress!).
This approach even works, (with some adaptations) for the files from the drone and Sony RX100V. These cameras only shoot RAW+JPEG, which I was initially irritated by, but I've now realised that DPP can read the JPEGs, which I can cull, and then it's relatively easy to use those files to cull through the RAWs, before finally deleting the JPEGs and taking the selected RAWs into Lightroom.
Full size photos after the jump.
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