On Apr 8, 2007, at 3:08 AM, Jan van Wijk wrote: >> I tried to switch my camera from DNG to PEF. Per 1 GB card camera >> reported that it can fit 60 DNGs and 61 PEFs... Not worth the hassle. > > That is an overly conservative guess by the firmware ;-) > > I used the get about 120 DNG's on my 2Gb cards, and after switching > to PEF a while ago, I get about 180 ...
Lossless compression of the PEF data was added pretty late in the K10D development process, from what I understand, and the firmware that estimates number of exposures per available space was not updated to reflect the differences. Yesterday's little jaunt came home with 154 exposures on a 2g card, the camera was estimating space for about 16 more exposures when i stopped shooting. If I had the camera set to RAW/DNG, the last 20 or so exposures would have been on a second card. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
