One would have to know the exact chip being used and it's physical dimensions to accurately answer your question regarding the physical 3-dimensional storage requirements. The recent firmware upgrade for the K100D expands to slightly over 4 MB. Physically that's a very tiny amount of space.
Tom C. >From: "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Speaking of Firmware >Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:00:03 -0800 > >Well, your comment makes no sense to me ;-)) > >Paul described what was being shown in the photo, and I was curious where, >amongst all that stuff, the firmware is stored. On the boards, in the >ribbons, or elsewhere. I'm trying to get a sense of how much space the >firmware takes up in the camera. If it's on a board or card, how big is >it? How many megabytes does it take up? > >Why do I ask? Well, I just woke up curious this morning, but also, I'm >trying to understand why some digital cameras are so big compared to some >film cameras. And, since film cameras have a larger mirror and mirror box, >the firmware/software seemed that it might contribute to the size of the >camera in some way. > >I am ignorant of such things and want to be less ignorant. > >Shel > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Date: 11/30/2006 11:21:07 AM > > Subject: Re: Speaking of Firmware > > > > Shel, > > > > Your question does not make alot of sense, to me at least, since >firmware >is > > software that is semi-permanently stored in flash memory. I'm not sure >why > > it would matter just where in the camera the flash memory storing the > > firmware code was placed. > > > > > > Tom C. > > > > > > > > >From: "Shel Belinkoff" > > > >That's nice - where does the firmware go? Tks! > > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
