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chnical 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
1 All fi gures are approximate. File size varies with scene recorded and make of
memory card.
2 Maximum 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.
3 Total fi le size of NEF (RAW) and JPEG images.