Put a formatted 16 gig card In the camera and the frame count reads 460. I don't count actual results. No point in that.
Paul via phone On Jul 14, 2013, at 9:35 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/14/2013 6:09 PM, Larry Colen 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. > > My little bit of online research indicates the K5 PEF averages 31MB, which > should give about 528 frames on a 16GB card. For planning purposes I think > you'd be safe figuring 500-frames/16GB-card > > -- > 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.
