No, I meant megabytes <sigh> - it was something like 3:00am here when I posted that message. Those darned cats decided the bedroom, and more specifically the bed in which I was trying to sleep, was a playground.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: mike wilson > > From: "Shel Belinkoff" > > While I shoot more with digi, storage space is actually reduced > > substantially per frame. For example, a single 16-bit scan of a B&W frame > > is, iirc, about 45K, for color it's about 150K. I'm using round figures, > > of course. Using the DS, that same frame is only about 5-6K when converted > > to DNG, or about 10K with a full PEF (Pentax RAW) file, and that's color. > > Doing the math, I can get 25X or more space saving than with film. YMMV, > > but I can shoot 25 frames in digi for every one frame with film and end up > > using about the same storage space. > > My DL2 PEF files are about 10Mb. Scans from the Craposcan (2700dpi/8bit) are between 7 and 15Mb. Are you sure you're using the right units? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
