SD Cards

VapourTrail · November 4, 2007

Having ordered my D80 I now need to buy some memory cards. Was considering getting a pair of 2GB SanDisk SecureDigital Extreme III Cards. Could anybody give me an idea of how many images (JPEG and RAW) I could realistically expect to get on each card?

Seymore · November 4, 2007

I have a D200 (10MP) and can get the following on a 2G stick:

RAW - 119
RAW + JPG L/F - 77
JPG L/F - 223
JPG L/N - 444

L = Large
F = Fine
N = Normal

But I almost always shoot RAW... or if it's for personal use, JPG L/F. I've never seen any reason to shoot smaller than the highest res the cam will perform at.

HTH...

Phatman113 · November 4, 2007

My results are a little different than Seymore's, I've got an XTI (10mp) and shooting in RAW i get about 400 shots on a 4GB card. I tried shooting RAW + JPEG, but the JPEGS always turned out much worse than the RAW shots, so I would never use them. Eventually I just saved myself some space on my card and switched to straight RAW shots.

I'm not sure how accurate it is, but I just figure on a 10mp camera taking somewhere around 10MB shots (in RAW) so 4GB = 400, 8GB = 800...
Good for a rough estimate, but not exact. I actually get 399 on my 4GB card, about 798 on my 8GB card

but sometimes it's less depending on the shots I took...

I suppose it really depends on the camera and composition of the shots...

pathfinder · November 4, 2007

How many images you will get, to a certain extent, is a function of what your image is. The actual final number of images may vary by 10-20% in my experience with Canon cameras, but I doubt camera brand plays any role. YOu will get less variation with RAW files, and more and more with smaller jpgs, as the camera throws away data in is on board image processing.

Graphical images with minimal small details will be smaller files, than pictures with large areas of very fine detail.

Think a small building in a large even blue sky, versus pictures of fall foliage with lots of different colored leaves.

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