it's a high res jobbie designed for underwater use, ( the Fuji fine pix F30 )how many pics can I expect to be able to put onto a 500Gb external hard drive?
2007-12-27 13:07:43 · 3 answers · asked by pure_dragonfire 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
I know my q got repeated....Sorry....but a genuine, sensible answer would be appreciated.
2007-12-27 13:10:55 · update #1
I've worked it out to about 66,000,...Sourely his can't be right?
2007-12-27 13:53:42 · update #2
there is no real answer, depends on the detail in the images as to the size they are. The answer is thousands. Why not fill up a 1gb card then times the number of images by 500........................
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2007-12-27 13:16:46 · answer #1 · answered by Antoni 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Since most cameras store their images in compressed format and you get a choice of the resolution of the images, the answer will vary widely. I shoot pictures in XGA (1024x768) and they fill the computer screen, so I edit them down for sending to people. Unedited they are 150-200k bytes depending on detail in the picture.
Exceptions are RAW and TIFF, which keep the pictures in uncompressed format and take a lot more space.
Up to 18Mb, which will chew through a Gig pretty quickly.
As it says here
http://www.scantips.com/basics9j.html
"For ordinary color images (24 bit RGB), the uncompressed image size when opened in memory is always 3 bytes per pixel. For example, an image size of 3000x2000 pixels is 6 megapixels, and therefore by definition, when uncompressed (when opened), this memory size is 3X that in bytes, or 18 MB."
edit
here
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujifilmf30/
it says the camera only does JPEG for storage.
2007-12-27 21:27:46 · answer #2 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the file size, but in all likelihood, it would be in the hundreds of thousands.
2007-12-27 21:19:15 · answer #3 · answered by electrosmack1 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋