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Old 12-17-2007, 07:12 PM
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How many pics does 4gb chip hold?

I bought a small Kodak 12 megapixel camera (1275) for my trip to Poland. The camera has something like 64mb inside, and has a slot for various cards. I bought 3 4gb cards. I plan on transfering the pix to my laptop at the end of the day. (maybe I can even pick up the internet in Ropczyce, Poland)

How many pix at 12 mp can I expect to get on a 4gb card
What about at 9 or 6 mp? Is it a linear relationship, i.e., @ 6mp, i'll get double the pix than at 12 mp?

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Old 12-17-2007, 08:32 PM
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I can only help a miniscule amount. My camera, will usually tell me how many pictures I can store, when I change the resolution (while the card is in, of course). Maybe yours does this too?
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Old 12-17-2007, 08:35 PM
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Does the camera store them compressed (probably JPG) or uncompressed (probably TIFF)? This matters a lot. TIFF takes the full space, which would be either 3*12M or 4*12M per image. JPG takes much less, but you can't accurately predict how much. "Noisy" pictures require more space when compressed.

Take a few pictures and see how much space they take up.
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Old 12-17-2007, 08:37 PM
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My Olympus E-20N will do over 1000 with 2Gb in TIFF! I'd imagine it could get around 2K pics set to SHQ.
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Old 12-17-2007, 09:19 PM
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Thanks everybody. I just bought this thing and plan on learning about it on my 9+ hour flight. No time to read the book yet.
Looks like 12gig of cards is enough! That's my problem, always over the top.
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Old 12-17-2007, 10:02 PM
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Unless you are planning on saving at the maximum resolution you probably have enough w/o needing to transfer !!!

But they'll be much easier to manage an sort on the laptop.
You might be able to make an index right away too.




Scary to think about it, I bought an early digital camera, probably a little over ten years ago.
it was 500,000 pixels - yes 1/2 meg -- I don't remember how much storage built in held maybe 60 pics. Serial cable out, No slots, no screen, no zoom no nuttin.

and it was one of the best consumer level at the time. I think I paid 600+
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Old 12-17-2007, 10:07 PM
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When I was doing medium format, I went looking for a digital 6 x 7 back. It was $20,000.00!!!! That was less than 3 years ago. I sold the RB67.
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Old 12-17-2007, 10:23 PM
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Fred - you should have plenty of room with those cards! Unless you are shooting for National Geographic on Assignment, you're good to go.
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Your camera should tell you in the display how many images you can store on your card. Look for it, maybe in the user's manual.

The number should change accordingly if you change the resolution.

I get about 350 images, jpeg fine mode and 10MP picture size on a 2GB SD memory card.

Don't use TIFF mode, it's useless, unless you plan to use the data in a commercial printing process.

I don't suppose you wold shoot in RAW either, you'd have to convert you image data into a compatible format on your computer with designated software.

Reminder!!
Jpeg reduces the image resolution everytime you open the image for editing and save it again.

Here is what I do:
After transferring all images from a trip or any other event to the computer, I burn them onto a CD/DVD ROM. This way I can do what I want with the images on the computer, I always have the original to go back to.

Also, when you archive images you can rename your edited image differently from the original before you save it, this way the original will stay as it is, instead of replacing the original with the edited version.
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Old 12-18-2007, 02:11 AM
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Yikes 12 gigs of storage for a camera? Depending on the camera I am guessing you could take probably at least 6-8,000 pics in fairly high resolution. You're beyond prepared.

12MP is super high, just noticed that, so perhaps only about 3,500-4,000 pics on all the cards.
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You don't really have to shoot with the camera set to 12 MP. Those pictures come out way too big.
Unless you want to produce large photo prints, there is pratically no point for such large image files, since any regular reproduction such as a 5x7 print will require a reduction of the original picture size.

Even when viewing on the computer monitor, windows will automatically compress the files to "Best Fit" view. If you run XP there is a little icon next to 'best fit', which says 'actual size', click on this and you will only see a fraction of any large picture.
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Old 12-18-2007, 09:01 AM
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Most manuals have a matrix in them somewhere that tells you the storage requirements for various resolutions and file types. It would depend upon all of those things. I have two 1GB cards, an 8MP Canon G-7, and take tons of photographs. I've never come anywhere close to filling up one of the cards.

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You don't really have to shoot with the camera set to 12 MP. Those pictures come out way too big.
Unless you want to produce large photo prints, there is pratically no point for such large image files, since any regular reproduction such as a 5x7 print will require a reduction of the original picture size.
Absolutely right. This is why I have yet to replace my 3.1mp Nikon -- that's plenty of resolution for me! Unless you plan to make posters out of your photos, I'd scale them down quite a bit. Have fun on your trip, BTW; the wife and I leave for Germany in 7 days, and I am counting the days!

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