Mark, Accuracy I don't know, but I've got 260 files (95% DNG's) on a 4 gig card. It thinks it will get 659 on a fresh 16 gig card. Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Mark Cassino<[email protected]> 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? > > Not that I am complaining - my Coolpix P6000 13.5 megapixel point and shoot > only manages to get about 45 raw files per gig of memory card. (The noise in > the images probably limits compression.) So the the K7 is doing great t0 > get 80 images per gigabyte. > > I will complain about how remote the card format function is in the K7 > menu. I swap cards between several different cameras, and want to format each > before use. I'd like to see the format command a few layers closer to the top > of the command tree in the K7 menu. > > - MCC > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo, Michigan > www.markcassino.com > www.calarti.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > The Story of Snow: > http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,kids/products_id,8238/title,The-Story-of-Snow/ > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > > > > -- > 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.
