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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 quality
Image size
File size (MB)
1
No. of images
1
Buffer capacity
2
NEF + JPEG Fine
3, 4, 5
L
6
8.9
0
53
40
M
6
8.0
0
60
40
NEF + JPEG Normal
3, 4, 5
L
6
7.9
0
61
40
M
6
7.5
0
65
40
NEF + JPEG Basic
3, 4, 5
L
6
7.4
0
66
40
M
6
7.2
0
69
40
NEF (Raw)
4
—
6.9
0
72
40
TIFF (RGB)
L
12.0
0
39
40
M
7.0
0
69
40
JPEG Fine
5
L
1.9
0
205
50
M
1.1
0
354
50
JPEG Normal
5
L
0.99
390
50
M
0.57
650
50
JPEG Basic
5
L
0.51
709
50
M
0.30
1300
50
1 All fi gures are approximate. Size of JPEG fi les varies with scene recorded.
2 Maximum number of frames that can be stored in memory buffer. Turning
Long
Exp. NR
on halves buffer capacity.
3 Total for NEF and JPEG images.
4 Figures assume
Raw compression
is set to
NEF (Raw)
. Selecting
Comp. NEF
(Raw)
decreases fi le size of NEF (RAW) images by approximately forty to fi fty percent;
although number of exposures remaining does not change, number of images that
can be recorded increases.
5 Figures assume
JPEG compression
is set to
Fixed size
. Selecting
Optimal quality
increases fi le size of JPEG images by up to eighty percent; number of images and
buffer capacity drop accordingly.
6 Applies to JPEG images only. File size of NEF (RAW) images can not be changed.
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