Taking Photographs—Image Quality and Size

Memory Card Capacity and Image Quality/Size

The following table shows the approximate number of pictures that can be stored on a 512 MB card at different image quality and size settings.

Image

Raw

Image

File

No. of

Buffer

quality

compression

size

size*

images*

capacity

 

Comp. NEF (Raw)

L

**

††

24

 

M

**

††

24

NEF + JPEG Fine

 

 

L

7.9 MB

58

25

 

NEF (Raw)

 

M

7.1 MB

66

25

 

 

 

Comp. NEF (Raw)

L

**

††

24

 

M

**

††

24

NEF+JPEG Normal

 

 

L

6.6 MB

67

25

 

NEF (Raw)

 

M

6.1 MB

71

25

 

 

 

Comp. NEF (Raw)

L

**

††

24

 

M

**

††

24

NEF + JPEG Basic

 

 

L

6.5 MB

72

25

 

NEF (Raw)

 

M

6.3 MB

75

25

 

 

 

Comp. NEF (Raw)

‡‡

††

25

NEF (Raw)

 

 

NEF (Raw)

6.0 MB

79

26

 

TIFF (RGB)

L

11.5 MB

41

35

M

6.5 MB

74

35

 

JPEG Fine

L

1.9 MB

222

40

M

1.1 MB

390

40

 

JPEG Normal

L

0.98 MB

433

40

M

0.56 MB

709

40

 

JPEG Basic

L

0.49 MB

780

40

M

0.28 MB

1300

40

 

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