My sisters wedding soon, and my uncle who lives abroad is coming over. Now he is a keen amateur photogropher and has a pretty high end Nikon SLR digital camera that cost him about 650 quid and has 11 megapixels.
What i want to know is how many MBs do SLR pics take up? Naturally it will be heftier than your standard everyday camera….but will a 1 GB card be sufficient for several snaps? We have one (with a high transfer speed) already…..but are wondering if we should shell out for a 2gb
Hi,
Lets assume a Nikon D90 (12.2mp) – your uncle’s camera may be a different model.
Page 262 of the D90 manual indicates RAW+fine Jpeg images are 16.9MB each and a highest quality Jpeg on its own is 6.0MB.
You can do the numbers your self, 1GB card holds c150, 6.0MB highest quality Jpeg images (I always reduce the nominal card capacity by 10%, so a 1GB card has 900MB of usable space, this accounts for different card types and the fact that the 1GB is "nominal" capacity only – do a "properties" in My Computer and see)
Nikon DSLR manuals are available online – just search on the model. I attach the D90 link as an example.
Cards are usually reliable, but I would strongly suggest taking at least 2 cards, one for around the church/registry office, and another for the reception – just in case anything does go wrong. Memory is cheap memories are not!
SanDisk is my fave card too – below is the compatibility link – not all cards work in all cameras so beware.
Have a great wedding!
Cheers
Charles
With the Nikon digital slr cameras you can have different file sizes.
I use an 8 gb card in my Nikon D-90 and in nes-raw format I can take about 750 photos. This is the largest file size and best to shoot with.
Large jpeg files will double the number of photos.
Small jpeg files will raise it by a factor of 4 or 5.
I would recommend a 2 gb card and the RAW format that will give you about 375 available shots, a 1 gb card will give you about 185 shots in the same format. The wonderful thing about digital is you can instantly view the picture and if you need to retake the photo you just delete the old one and it saves the space.
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Hi,
Lets assume a Nikon D90 (12.2mp) – your uncle’s camera may be a different model.
Page 262 of the D90 manual indicates RAW+fine Jpeg images are 16.9MB each and a highest quality Jpeg on its own is 6.0MB.
You can do the numbers your self, 1GB card holds c150, 6.0MB highest quality Jpeg images (I always reduce the nominal card capacity by 10%, so a 1GB card has 900MB of usable space, this accounts for different card types and the fact that the 1GB is "nominal" capacity only – do a "properties" in My Computer and see)
Nikon DSLR manuals are available online – just search on the model. I attach the D90 link as an example.
Cards are usually reliable, but I would strongly suggest taking at least 2 cards, one for around the church/registry office, and another for the reception – just in case anything does go wrong. Memory is cheap memories are not!
SanDisk is my fave card too – below is the compatibility link – not all cards work in all cameras so beware.
Have a great wedding!
Cheers
Charles
References :
http://www.nikonusa.com/pdf/manuals/noprint/D90_ennoprint.pdf
http://www.sandisk.com/Compatibility/
Like most manufacturers Raw formats NEF is actually a lossless compression format, so file sizes will change depending on picture content.
With my 10Mp camera a 2Gb card shooting Raw the camera shows 122 shots available, with file sizes varying anything from 6.3Mb to 8.2Mb this is a pessimistic figure and I have never had less than 160 and on one occasion went over 200, it depends on picture content large areas of continuous tone will be a smaller file size than lots of fussy detail.
It would be a shame to miss out on some shots just because you ran out of card space, with the money invested in the wedding by family and guests the cost of a few extra 4Gb cards is a trifling amount.
Chris
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