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Technical Notes—Appendix
Appendix
Memory Card Capacity and Image Quality/Size
The following table shows the approximate number of pictures that can be
stored on a 256 MB card at different image quality and size settings.
Image
quality
Image
size
File size
(MB)
1
No. of
images
1
Buffer capacity
2
Long Exp. NR
Off
Long Exp. NR
On
NEF (Raw) — 5.0 33 4 3
JPEG Fine
L 2.9 70 9 7
M 1.6 123 10 8
S 0.8 258 19 17
JPEG Normal
L 1.5 137 12 10
M 0.8 233 16 14
S 0.4 464 27 25
JPEG Basic
L 0.8 258 19 17
M 0.4 423 27 25
S 0.2 770 49 47
NEF+JPEG Basic —/L 5.8
3
29 4 3
1All fi gures are approximate. File size varies with scene recorded and make of
memory card.
2Maximum number of frames that can be stored in memory buffer. Actual number
of photos that can be taken before buffer fi lls may vary with make of memory
card.
3Total fi le size of NEF (RAW) and JPEG images.