A very big factor in K-5 image size is ISO. Shots with more noise compress poorly as compared to the same shot at low ISO.
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 06:04:19PM -0400, Paul Stenquist wrote: >> A 16 gig card in a k-5 holds 460 frames RAW. > > Many of my photos were of senseis teaching on solid colored blue mats. > > I suspect that my photos were more amenable to compression than many > scenes. > > Note that I got about 550 frames per 16 GB which isn's hugem amounts > more than 460 per. At a wedding, there will probably be a lot more > details in the clothes and background that'll take more space per frame. > >> >> Paul via phone >> >> On Jul 14, 2013, at 5:51 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > On 7/14/2013 17:13, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> Since the question was recently asked, a 32 GB card will hold just shy of >> >> 1200 frames shot with a K-5. >> > >> > RAW? >> > clearly, I only need a 16 gig card for the wedding :-) >> > >> > ann >> >> >> >> Yes, I shoot too many frames. This is exacerbated when I am shooting >> >> something like martial arts, particularly at large seminars when I am >> >> not training, and have nothing to do but stand up in the corner of the >> >> bleachers, with a telephoto. >> > >> > -- >> > 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. >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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. -- -bmw -- 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.
