How many pictures will a 2GB SD card hold with a 10.4 Mega Pixel Camera?

Answer 1

I've written this already for a 5 MP camera and a 1 GB card. You are talking twice the storage, but twice the file size, so I'd imagine the final numbers would turn out the same.
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You must understand that this information is based on using the highest resolution, largest image a 5 MP camera can produce. If you use smaller sizes, the storage capacity increases immensely.

Put the card in your camera and see how many frames it says you can still hold on the card. That's the only really accurate way. Well, even that is an approximation, because the camera does not know how large your next picture will be. It's like your car predicting how many miles of fuel you have remaining in the tank when it doesn't know if you are about to smash the gas pedal to the floor. For instance, if you take a picture with a lot of more-or-less uniform sky in it, the memory used for a full 5 MP picture will be considerably lower than a 5 MP picture with huge amounts of detail.

If you are thinking of buying a 1 GB card and don't have one to check by putting in your camera, look in your owner's manual.

If you lost your manual, you can do some estimates and some calculations. A 5 MP camera will make files about 3-3.5 MB in size for an "average" full size, maximum resolution picture. Sometimes more and sometimes less. The theoretical MAXIMUM would be 5 MB, right?

One billion divided by 5 million = 200 pictures.

If the file size if more like 3.5 MP, though:

One billion divided by 3.5 million = 285 pictures.

Do the math to draw your own conclusions about lesser file sizes.

If you shoot a mid-size photo with "normal" resolution, you might even be able to get about a thousand on the card. Check your manual for details.

http://www.lexar.com/digfilm/capacity_chart.html shows various card sizes with various MP cameras.

Answer 2

Sorry but hard to be specific.

1. On most cameras like this you can not only selecte the resolution but ALSO the compression rate.

2. If most of yor photo is "similar" - sky, black, white etc, then it will compress VERY nicely - to perhaps considerably under 3-5 MB - if however you have photographed something of great detail, then it may be several times this.

Without any compression at all, a 10 MP camera sampling 8 bits takes 30 Megs per photo - so about 60 photos. If taken as 16 bit, it will take 60 Megs per photo - or 30 photos per 2GB Card

Sorry the answer is vague - but it depends MASSIVELY on what cmopression you are using and WHAT you are photographing.

Answer 3

Depends on what resolution you have the camera set at.

Look in your manual and there should be info there as to how many pic's each size card will hold, etc. Or, it should tell you if you set the resolution to "x" it will create a file of "y" size.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

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