Digital Camera Question

[4crusinransiers]

I have a new camera that uses a compact flash card for storage.
I was in the prossess of buying more cards for our upcoming cruise and trip to WDW. Does anyone know how many photos
you can store on a 128m compact flash in the econemy mode????? Any tips? I don't want to run out of space!

 

[cmraman]

It depends on the resolution and compression. I can get 1021 pics on 128MB with my digital camcorder at high resolution and 120 on the same size card with my digital camera at high res. Usually the camera has a readout to tell you how many pics you have left. Changing the mode will change the number of shots left. Walmart now has a service where you can e-mail in the files and get 4x6 prints for 26 cents each and pick them up at yuur local store. If you shoot at the minimum resolution, you may not be happy with the prints. Smaller files look OK on the monitor, but the monitor has between 6 and 800 lines. A 4x6 print from 35mm (24mmx36mm negative size) has 125+ lines per millimeter of film (125x24mm=3000 lines) Personally, I would recommend normal or fine resolution if you plan on any prints and highest resolution if you think you might crop or enlarge any.

 

[MarkRG]

Hi! I'd first ask what camera you have, as all of them are different. On mine in high quality mode, I get over 300 on a 128m CF card. Somewhere in your manual that came with the camera, there should be a table that lists how many, in what mode of storage your camera can hold. Usually, you can get more on one card if you have the camera store them as jpg's instead of the camera's normal mode of saving, but the camera software may not be as flexible in what fixes you can make to pictures once you get home with jpg's.


Yes, it's very complicated. But not quite that bad. I'll be able to answer better when I know the camera you're going to use.

 

[taswira]

You might also notice that you may not <I>always</I> get the same number of shots, even at the same resolution, from the same card and camera. This is because photographs which contain great detail are of a bigger file size than those which do not. So if you sometimes shoot a lot of detailed (as in wide range of detailed objects and colors) photos, your 128MB card <I>might</I> hold several shots less than it otherwise would.

 

[TiggerfanNJ]

Is it possible to download the digital pictures when the card gets full and email them home on the Magic?

 

[MarkRG]

No, computer facilities are limited to email and web access only onboard, so consider having enough pictures till you return home.

 

[LenDVC92]

As noted, various camera models differ. See here for a general guideline: How Many Pictures Can I Fit on a Flash Storage Card?

Len.

 

[Parrotheader]

Another important to thing to note on most point-and-shoot digital cameras when considering storage size . . . . sometimes you'll have several choices between image size (800x600, 1280x1024, 1600x1200) as well as image compression (compressed v/s uncompressed or min, avg., max) Set the image size to whatever you think you'll need. If you're planning on printing, 1280x1024 is a minimum for decent quality printouts.

However, the difference in JPEG compression on MOST cameras is very subtle to the average user's needs yet it has a HUGE impact on storage space. High compression images WILL be noticeably lower in quality. However, in my experience I've never seen a camera where there was a noticeable difference between minimum and average compression. Yet average compression sometimes stores up 10 times the photos while still retaining over 95% of the image quality. So keep that in mind when viewing the tables on the link above (good link by the way.)

 

[Mike Bartenhagen]

You might want to check into a Digital Wallet if you are planning on purchasing several cards. I have been considering purchasing one before our trip this fall. They come in many sizes from about 3 gigs and up and allow you to download your pictures from your compact flash cards to the hard drive in the device. It is compact and looks as though it would be a good option for holding many pictures.

I would also agree with one of the earlier posts that you want to save your pictures at the highest quality you can.

 

[psimon]

How much are Digital Wallets? Sounds like it has possibilities.

I am using a 4Mp camera. I save the pictures in the least compression jpg format (as opposed to the Tiff, no compression format). That yields an average 1.8Mb / picture file.

Right now I have the original 16Mb CF (kind of useless), a 128 Mb CF (good for about 61 shots) and a 256 Mb CF that I haven't used yet. I'm used to shooting about 1 24exp roll per day on trips. Now that I have gone digital, I'm concerned I'll run out of storage.

Thanks... Paul

 

[tinkerbell4two]

I have an olympus c-2040 with Quicktime capability. I can get 128 pics with my 64MB flash card as long as I shoot high quality photos only. One thing to remember with a digi camera, you have the capability to view and delete your photos on-the-fly. So, shot lots and lots of the same scene and then choose your favorite one, delete the rest. We will be on the 7-day cruise with another 4 days at WDW. I'm bringing a 64- and a 128-MB cards which will give me around 400 photos at high resolution, but I'll probably get half of that since I love to take 15 second quicktime movies of my DDs.

 

[Mike Bartenhagen]

Here is a link to the company that makes the digital wallets. There are prices there.

http://www.mindsatwork.net/

Nicole is correct that you can delete photos you don't want on the fly but I have found I actually take more pictures with my digital camera than I did with a film camera because there is no concern about the cost of film or processing and with the price of hard drives continuing to drop it is easy to store a lot of pictures.