On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 05:26:57PM -0500, John Sessoms wrote: > From: John Francis >> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:19:42PM -0800, Brendan MacRae wrote: >>> > I'm wondering what the files sizes are that come out of this thing? They >>> > must be huge. >> >> Not that huge, relatively speaking. 40MP 14-bit RAW vs 14MP for a K-7 gives >> a >> ballpark figure of maybe 4x the size of a K-7 file. If you can drop $10K on >> a >> camera you're probably not short of the odd terabyte of disk space or GB of >> RAM. >> And if digital MF shooters are like their film brethren they'll run off less >> frames (although they'll think a lot more before pressing the shutter >> release), >> so the total storage space won't be quite as high. > > Out in rumor central, the number "100MB" is getting bandied about for > uncompressed raw files.
Well, what do you expect from people who can't even do simple math(s) ? 40 MP, 14-bit raw; that's 80MB. The other 20MB is only in their imagination. (And who writes uncompressed RAW files nowadays, anyway?) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
