Mark, What John says.
Your pix tend to have fairly uniform (and thus highly compressible) backgrounds. If you go shoot a lot of pix with highly detailed backgrounds, making them almost un-compressible, you will find that the counter is pretty accurate. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Fri, 7/17/09, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote: > From: John Francis <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: K7 Frame Counting > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 10:30 PM > On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 07:16:08PM > -0700, Mark Cassino wrote: > > > > This has probably been discussed already - but how > accurate is the K7 in terms of prediciting the number of > exposure that will fit on any given memory card? > > ? > > I have a bunch of 2 gig cards, and when I insert one > in the K7 and format it, the camera tells me that it will > hold 82 PEF files. In actuality, it holds more like 150 -160 > files. I'm used to this with the K10D but thought that was > an anomaly with the camera where compression was implemented > in the PEF format at the last minute, but the?exposure > counting routines were not? updated. So what gives with the > K7? > > The camera is being pessimistic. It doesn't know how > well it > it will be able to compress your files (PEfs, JPGs, or > DNGs), > so it displays a (very) conservative estimate as to how > many > images it will manage to fit on a card. > > That, IMO, is the right thing to do. It will be able > to fit > at least the displayed number of images on the card - > nobody > is going to complain if it manages to fit more on. > But if it > displayed a more realistic guess, and for some reason > wasn't > quite able to fit the last image on the card, there would > be > loud howlings and much angst displayed on, say, Pentax > forums. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
