On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:57:10AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 10/10/2006 8:01:15 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Thanks Lon - you kicked my brain into gear ;-)) It just crossed my mind > that by shooting RAW and converting to JPEG later, you may be able to shoot > faster as the camera isn't processing a RAW and a JPEG file at the same > time. Is that a reasonable assumption? > > Shel > ========= > I would think so. > > I guess a question relevant to this also is, how big a capacity are SD cards > going to get? And how big a capacity SD card will the K10D allow? I.E. for > having both RAW and JPGs on the card? > > Marnie
We've already seen 4GB SD cards. Would you really want anything much larger than that? Allowing 16MB for RAW, & 4MB for JPEG, (a gross over-estimate) that's 20MB per image, or 200 images on a single 4GB card. Would you care to risk more than that on probably the least reliable part of the system? After all, two 4GB cards will probably be cheaper than a single 8GB card. SD-HC specs allow for capacities up to 32GB. The K10D is SD-HC compliant, so I'm sure it will work with a 32GB card when one comes along. SD card capacity follows the mainstream technology curve, getting ever faster, cheaper, and larger. I expect to see 32GB SD-HC cards in 3 years at most. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
