file size

joshhuntnmjoshhuntnm Registered Users Posts: 1,924 Major grins
edited October 4, 2010 in Finishing School
I just got a Canon 60d and I am amazed at how much memory this thing eats up. what is strange is it is rated as a 18mg camera. The actual files range from 17 mg to 24 mg. I am actually letting LIghtroom convert to .dng, but I don't get why the files would be bigger than 18 mg
Josh
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  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,967 moderator
    edited October 4, 2010
    You're confusing megabytes with megapixels. In the raw image, each pixel is represented by 14 bits in each channel for a total of 42 bits/pixel. Lossless compression is used to reduce the file size, but it is still larger than you expected.

    Other than that, how do you like the 60D?
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  • joshhuntnmjoshhuntnm Registered Users Posts: 1,924 Major grins
    edited October 4, 2010
    Richard wrote: »
    You're confusing megabytes with megapixels. In the raw image, each pixel is represented by 14 bits in each channel for a total of 42 bits/pixel. Lossless compression is used to reduce the file size, but it is still larger than you expected.

    Other than that, how do you like the 60D?

    really like it. with LIghtroom 3, the noise is acceptable to my eye at 6400.
    Josh
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