Nikon D70S User Manual
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Taking Photographs—Image Quality and Size
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
*
No. of images
*
Buffer capacity
†
NEF (Raw)
4
44
5.0 MB
—
JPEG Fine
9
73
2.9 MB
L
7
130
1.6 MB
M
19
279
0.8 MB
S
JPEG Normal
12
144
1.5 MB
L
7
253
0.8 MB
M
27
528
0.4 MB
S
JPEG Basic
19
279
0.8 MB
L
7
481
0.4 MB
M
49
950
0.2 MB
S
NEF+JPEG Basic
4
39
5.8 MB
**
L
‡
*
All fi gures are approximate. File size varies with scene recorded and make of memory
card.
†
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.
‡
Size of JPEG image fi xed at L. When opened in Nikon Capture 4 version 4.2 or later
(available separately) or PictureProject, NEF im ag e is 3,008 × 2,000 pixels.
**
Total fi le size of NEF (RAW) and JPEG images.
Large- Capacity Memory Cards
When enough mem o ry re mains on the memory card to
record a thou sand or more pic tures at cur rent set tings,
the num ber of exposures re main ing will be shown in
thou sands, round ed down to the near est hun dred (e.g.,
if there is room for ap prox i mate ly 1,260 ex po sures, the
ex po sure count dis play will show 1.2 K).