new d70 help please

[meagain]

Just bought a D70, going on holiday to Mauritius next Saturday, have a 1G cf card... how many images do you think it will hold, is it best to have another one as well?
Thanks

[GetCarter]

If you look in the manual, it'll tell you how much space each pic will take at the various resolutions, you can then work out roughly how many you'll get - I gb at 'print' res may well be not enough... but if it's just for the computer it should be fine.

Steve

[cliff123]

I have 1Gb card too. Like yours in Raw and Jpeg mode it displays 159 photos available which will mean it can take about 250ish I guess as it under estimates by a long way.

[meagain]

thanks guys...
gues it will be worth incvesting another 1G card then, as im a novice and most of the pictures will be crap... have to take a lot to get the odd good ones..

[simpo two]

Back to the manual!

The number on the display when the camera is off is the estimated shots remaning. See it change as you vary the quality settings using the rear dial:

RAW + JPG Basic
RAW
JPG Large
JPG Fine
JPG Basic

Those deal with the amount of compression; in addition with JPG you can change the *image* size in pixels using the front dial:

Large
Medium
Small

So the most memory-consuming option, RAW + JPG Basic, will give you 87 shots, while JPG Basic Small will give you 3,800!

One point - the D70 is very conservative in its estimate; in real life you will get significantly more shots than it says. For example, I use JPG Large Fine which gives an average file size of about 2.8Mb. Divide that into 1Gb and you get 357 shots - many more than 293 it says.

[chim_knee]

I have a 2Gb card and I get about 400-500 RAW shots on it... so around 200-250 maybe?

I depends on the format you shoot of course. JPG small etc... could be up to 1000's!

I seem to remember reading that the D70 gets its "shots left" value based on the size of the largest file saved (or a factory default when the card is empty) and dividing the space remaining by that. I believe this has been changed to use an average size with the firmware update.

>> Edited by chim_knee on Thursday 30th June 11:57

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