Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >Remember when we could only shoot 36 exposures before having to >reload, without even knowing whether or not any of our photos were >actually what we expected?
Yeah - those were the days when it was fairly affordable to own two or even three high quality cameras and switch between them when one ran out of film! <g> >I found the limits for the DS when I was doing the sequence testing >to be about 195 RAW exposures on a 2G card, but it is variable based >upon how the JPEG previews embedded in the PEFs compress, which is >scene and ISO dependent. I expect the DS2 is identical in this regard. With the K110D, number of possible shots on a card will vary more because the RAW file is also compressed and that will vary quite a bit depending on subject. >My rule of thumb when it comes to buying storage is that I like to >have space for about 100 exposures on a card. For the DS, 1G is fine. >For the Sony R1, 2G is required. Going to 2G and 4G respectively >allows more flexibility in the field, but isn't essential. > >I'd wait on buying SD media with greater than 2G capacity. I'll want >some 4G SDHC for the K10D as well, but no need to rush ... I've got >about 12G of SD cards in stock already, in 1G and 2G cards. >From what I now know, I'll be sticking with 2-Gig cards with the K10D - with the data compression, they hold more images than a 2G card in my ist-D! (I rather that I *needed* bigger cards, if you know what I mean, but them's the breaks!) -- Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com 412-687-2835 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
