D'Oh... Old CF cards are sloooooow!

[Nod]

Just been sticking a load of 24" wide pans together so they are all on one 24" wide but tall image (because I'm tight and that's the cheapest way to get them all printed to 24" wide) and to get them to the printer, I decided that I'd dump them onto an old 128MB card I've got kicking around. Takes a while to save to slow cards, dunnit?!:bonk:
Because I'm such a nice guy, I've dumped the image onto a much faster USB key drive so the printer's not kicking his heels waiting for the image to load!

*Side thought... I wonder how many D800 raws will fit on the card? cards it'll need to take 1 D800 raw?

 

[Pookeyhead]

*Side thought... I wonder how many D800 raws will fit on the card? cards it'll need to take 1 D800 raw?

If lossless compression is used, 2 or 3x 14bit RAWs per card depending on image context/compression.

If no compression is used, 1x 14bit RAW per card

 

[Nod]

I'd best retire the 16MB card then...

 

[Nod]

As a postscript, I delivered the file (on the stick not the card!) to the shop and the chap uploaded it to the beautiful fruity laptop to deal with in any downtime he got. Went in this afternoon and his fruity 'pooter doesn't like talking to the large format printer over the wireless network. Could be that it's a 55meg file (20840px x 5760px) and he's being timed out or simply operator error (he's a recently converted Apple fanboy, although he denies his fanboyism since he refuses to have an iPhone to accompany his iPad, iLappy, iPod etc!)

Just for the hell of it and since I have another identical card, I shoved it in the D800 and formatted it, set the camera to 14 bit raw and got 1 image on the card. Large, Fine JPEG allowed me 3... Glad I use 16GB SDs with an 8GB CF as a backup and shoot JPEG (always LF)!!!