2GB MMCard?

Question

Good Morning Yahoo People...

I just purchased a 2GB MMCard for my Camera, how many pictures will that hold? I only have a 32Meg at the min and can only fit about 8 on it.....

I have a Canon Powershot A640

10 Mega Pixel

i just took a picture and it was 3.2MB is this file large?

Answer 1

Without knowing what camera you use for a 100% accurate answer, some maths would indicate that if 8 pictures = 32 MB, then 2 GB is good for 500 pictures (2000/32*8).
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This review for the A640 lists some average file sizes at various quality settings. At the best quality setting (Large, SuperFine), a picture is about 3.4 MB. That should give you around 580 pictures on a 2GB card. Or about 250 best quality pictures and 10 minutes worth of best quality video.
If you turn the quality settings down a notch, you could probably keep shooting forever on a 2 GB card :-)
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Regarding that 3.2MB picture you just took - that should be a best quality jpg. It's pretty close to the numbers I looked up, and those numbers were averages. If the focus was good etc., you have enough detail in that picture to make a superb 8x10 inch print - or even much larger if you want.
For comparison, I use a 10 megapixel Nikon dSLR camera. At best quality jpg, my camera produces 5MB jpg files. This would indicate that the Canon A640 compresses the files a bit more vigorously. In theory this is a bad thing - the A640 discards more information. But in the real world this is no big deal. A 3.2MB file is still HUGE! (I had to buy an extra hard disk last year to store all of my pictures.)
For further comparison, our old 4 megapixel Kodak only produced 0.4MB files, but even these were good enough for great 5x7 inch prints!

Answer 2

Based on a file size of 3.2MB. A 2GB card will give you 625 photos. You'll probably get a few more than that since not all photos will be that big. Yes 3.2MB is a large file but that's the price you pay for high resolution...large files.

External harddrives are very cheap now. You can find a 500GB on sale for under $200. That'll give you space to store all of your photos...

Answer 3

The answer is dependent upon how many pixels (quality determiner) you wish for each photograph. Your camera probably has at least a high/low quality setting. My office's older Olympus offers three different picture quality settings. The higher the quality, the higher the amount of storage space each photograph demands. For example, each photograph taken at the "high" quality photographic mode on that Olympus is 650-750 KB. At that rate, you would be able to store 2,600+ photos on a 2GB MM card.

Answer 4

depends you select the image size, less resolution you can catch more than1000 of pic.32MB you r having 8 means your camera set on 4MB resolution. To send the pic to your friends via email set for 1.2 MB is more than sufficient..

Answer 5

If you are taking pics at 10MB, standard resolution, it's about 750. At fine res, it's about 480. Raw, it will store around 130 frames.

Answer 6

2gb can store up to a lot ! depending on the picture size. but it still holds quite a few.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

between 500 and 600