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Post by zou on Dec 30, 2022 13:23:10 GMT
Just put a 32GB memory card in my camera, having mostly used an 8GB card up to now. Set to raw+jpg it'll fit over 1300 images on the card. This year to date I've shot less than 1000 on the camera, but aiming to do a lot more next year.
Will happily repeat my new year's resolution post of each of the last few years - 16MP is good enough.
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Post by geoffr on Dec 30, 2022 13:44:23 GMT
Just put a 32GB memory card in my camera, having mostly used an 8GB card up to now. Set to raw+jpg it'll fit over 1300 images on the card. This year to date I've shot less than 1000 on the camera, but aiming to do a lot more next year. Will happily repeat my new year's resolution post of each of the last few years - 16MP is good enough. Oh if only!
A matter of a six weeks ago I put fresh cards in my D5 and D4s, so far I have shot over 850 on each of them. When I upgraded to the D3 I had been using 8GB cards, I moved to 16GB for the D3 then 32GB with the D4. The D4s and D5 have 64GB cards.
In the D5 using uncompressed raw files I get 1,300 images per card, in the D4s 1,700.
To put that in some perspective, in 2014 I bought a MacBook Air to travel with, it has a capacity of 128GB. At the time I thought it would be ideal for holidays, today I would be unable to get the images from more than one card on it.
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Post by peterob on Dec 30, 2022 14:35:45 GMT
Just put a 32GB memory card in my camera, having mostly used an 8GB card up to now. Set to raw+jpg it'll fit over 1300 images on the card. This year to date I've shot less than 1000 on the camera, but aiming to do a lot more next year. Will happily repeat my new year's resolution post of each of the last few years - 16MP is good enough. I bought the smallest possible CFExpress card for my Fuji X-H2s, it is 64 GB. The second slot reuses a 32 GB SD card. In recent years I’ve slowly gone up 8 GB to 16 GB to 32 GB as file sizes increase. My first digital camera (Canon 5D) had a limit of 4 GB (before a firmware upgrade) and I used 2 GB cards I think. The Fuji can now hold 3,000 compressed (lossless) raw files. This is more photos than I take in a year so it is a bit silly. |
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Post by squeamishossifrage on Jan 1, 2023 13:08:30 GMT
Will happily repeat my new year's resolution post of each of the last few years - 16MP is good enough. I am strictly 24MP - and for a reason. I print a lot of keepers, all at A3+. A3+ is 19" by 13" (330mm x 483mm). A frame size of 6,000 by 4,000 at 300dpi is as close as dammit to that size. Ergo - 24MP! As for cards, I started out with 16GB high speed and 32GB normal, but as soon as fast 64GB CF cards came out, I bought a passel of them and retired everything else. I found 64GB to be good for about one week on holiday, which meant that as long as I transferred the day's shots to the laptop each night, then the card was its own backup. |
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Post by petrochemist on Jan 1, 2023 14:14:33 GMT
Will happily repeat my new year's resolution post of each of the last few years - 16MP is good enough. I am strictly 24MP - and for a reason. I print a lot of keepers, all at A3+. A3+ is 19" by 13" (330mm x 483mm). A frame size of 6,000 by 4,000 at 300dpi is as close as dammit to that size. Ergo - 24MP! As for cards, I started out with 16GB high speed and 32GB normal, but as soon as fast 64GB CF cards came out, I bought a passel of them and retired everything else. I found 64GB to be good for about one week on holiday, which meant that as long as I transferred the day's shots to the laptop each night, then the card was its own backup. 16MP is ample for A3, I have exhibited A3 prints made from 16MP cameras with no issues. I don't have room to display many images as big as A3, so the vast majority of my prints have been A4. However it is always nice to have a bit of spare for cropping... FWIW I have also printed a panorama from a 6MP camera to around 3000mm x 200mm - I doubt I'll do that again the printing was expensive & I never found a suitable way to mount it while keeping portable! I agree with Zou 16mp is quite enough for most things |
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Post by daves on Jan 1, 2023 14:33:40 GMT
Now here's a thing, I've gone off the long thin 3x2 aspect ratio. My current main camera has the old "APS-H" format in 16 mpx 6.0 micron pixels.
Unfortunately 3x2 is what everyone else wants so I'm a bit stuffed, unless I can find a S/H KAF16803 camera which is 4096 x 4096 9 micron pixels, and is technically obsolete.
I lust after a Sony IMX 461 camera but the cheapest is near as damnit £17k.
Think I'll stick with what I've got.
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