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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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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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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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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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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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.

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.

You'll be fine with what you've got.

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