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Tony Coatsworth


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About 300+ large RAW Canon images on a 4Gb card.

However don't be tempted by ultra cheap Sandisk cards from Hong Kong - I got an Extreme III which came in a nice bubble pack with hologram stickers etc.
However studying it in a mate's PDA, it appeared to be a Redstone or something and performs like a dog - transferring at about 10MB/s rather than 30




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JOHN TYMON wrote:

Nick Isherwood wrote:

Just as a matter of interest ,how many images in RAW would a Sandisk III Extreme 4GB hold if I was shooting with the largest image setting and best quality setting on the camera?

-- Edited by Nick Isherwood on Tuesday 2nd of November 2010 03:50:34 PM




SD cards are more fragile than cf cards,and I have broken a few,and lost shots.
about 180-200 raw ,or thats what I get on my Nikon d90,but if your just begining the DSLR journey,I would stick to JPEG,has you will be overwelmed by the work involved,you will take many hundreds of bad shots to the good ones at first,and you will find that you will take 100s of shots to begin with,after a few years,you end up narrowing that down a lot,then you could try raw,put Raw v JPEG in google and see the advantage v dissadvantage of raw,and many top wildlife photographers still use jpeg only.
but more good shots are ruined by people who shoot raw then don't have the knowledge to correctly post process,and you end up with oversaturated over sharpened messes,than the people who take jpegs,but can do the lesser tweaking after.Raw is great for some circumstances,but at the beginning stick to jpegs,The difference is minimul,and try putting the correct sharpening colours ,can take a long time.



-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Tuesday 2nd of November 2010 06:47:36 PM



Thanks for the advice on that John. I think I'll stick to Jpeg for the moment.smile.gif

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JOHN TYMON


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Nick Isherwood wrote:

Just as a matter of interest ,how many images in RAW would a Sandisk III Extreme 4GB hold if I was shooting with the largest image setting and best quality setting on the camera?

-- Edited by Nick Isherwood on Tuesday 2nd of November 2010 03:50:34 PM




SD cards are more fragile than cf cards,and I have broken a few,and lost shots.
about 180-200 raw ,or thats what I get on my Nikon d90,but if your just begining the DSLR journey,I would stick to JPEG,has you will be overwelmed by the work involved,you will take many hundreds of bad shots to the good ones at first,and you will find that you will take 100s of shots to begin with,after a few years,you end up narrowing that down a lot,then you could try raw,put Raw v JPEG in google and see the advantage v dissadvantage of raw,and many top wildlife photographers still use jpeg only.
but more good shots are ruined by people who shoot raw then don't have the knowledge to correctly post process,and you end up with oversaturated over sharpened messes,than the people who take jpegs,but can do the lesser tweaking after.Raw is great for some circumstances,but at the beginning stick to jpegs,The difference is minimul,and try putting the correct sharpening colours ,can take a long time.



-- Edited by JOHN TYMON on Tuesday 2nd of November 2010 06:47:36 PM

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Adrian Drummond-Hill


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At the link http://www.digital-slr-guide.com/canon-rebel-t1i-500d-guide.html they say it will take 160 images on a 4GB card in RAW.

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John does raise a valid point regarding SD cards. I use one in my Canon G11 and broke it quite easily, fortunately I managed to rescue the images.

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Cheers for that fellas.biggrin.gif

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raw files on a 4gb sd my 1ds iii is estimating - 270 @ 100 iso, 222@ 3200iso

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Nick Isherwood wrote:

Just as a matter of interest ,how many images in RAW would a Sandisk III Extreme 4GB hold if I was shooting with the largest image setting and best quality setting on the camera?

-- Edited by Nick Isherwood on Tuesday 2nd of November 2010 03:50:34 PM





John might be able to answer that better than me as I don't have a Canon DSLR but my Nikon Raw files are about 25 to 30 meg each and I use lossless compressed.

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Just as a matter of interest ,how many images in RAW would a Sandisk III Extreme 4GB hold if I was shooting with the largest image setting and best quality setting on the camera?

-- Edited by Nick Isherwood on Tuesday 2nd of November 2010 03:50:34 PM

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Nick Isherwood wrote:

Can someone please recommend a memory card for a Canon 500D. I'm new to photography so any advice on this would be most appreciated.biggrin.gif




The 500d takes SD cards I think,has Adrian says Sandisc extreme 111 are the ones most people use,but ive used much cheaper cards without any issues,and I tend to use 4 gig cards,has I don't shoot raw,and im always wary of having too many pictures on 1 card,in case it doas break-a 4 gig card will take about 500 jpegs at best quality,so i have one in the camera and 1 spare,that will do me even for a very busy session.smile.gif

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I use SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash cards that have a speed of 30 MB/s. Don't get confused with card speeds, it won't allow you to take more frames per second, it only refers to the speed you can transfer data from the card to your computer. I use 16 GB cards as I always shoot in RAW and the file sizes can be quite big.

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Can someone please recommend a memory card for a Canon 500D. I'm new to photography so any advice on this would be most appreciated.biggrin.gif

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