Memory card capacities

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Hi everyone,

Not sure if this is a silly question or not but I was wandering how many photo's different sized memory cards hold? eg, 4gb, 8gb, 32gb etc???

If anyone has an rough answer to this it would help greatly.

Thanks!!
 
It all depends on the size of the files produced by the camera. This can be governed by whether you are shooting in RAW or JPEG, the pixel count of the camera and, to some extent, what aperture you are shooting at and even what ISO setting you are using.

The camera will give you a shot-remaining count when there is a card inserted. This is normally estimated on something like a 'worst-case scenario' basis (ooops, bit of management-speak there) and will most often be bettered in real life shooting.

Do you have a particular camera in mind? There are often guides to the estimated shot count per card on the manufacturer's websites.
 
In most camera manuals, there's a chart telling you roughly how many pics can be stored an assorted capacity cards at different size and quality settings. As an example, my DSLR can get from 53 Large FF TIFF files to 7800 Small, Basic Dx JPEGs on a 2GB card.
 
Depends on the size of image file - raw files are a lot bigger than jpeg etc
 
In my nikon D60 I've had over 400 raw files on an 8gb card.
 
Nikon D90 (12mp), 8GB card @ Jpegfine+RAW = 350 pictures

Are you looking for a card and want to know what to get? If so, what camera do you have?
 
My d40x on raw will do over 500 on a 4gb card. Just got a d90 and a 2gb card gave me about 100 shots on raw + jpeg.

I'd get a couple of 4 gb cards
 
8Gb CF card holds 300-ish RAW files on my D3...
Spookily, a 16Gb card holds 300-ish RAW files on my D3x...
 
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