How many pics?

[fattizzi]

How many pictures do you think can a 256MB card hold with the New Canon 300D SLR? Not RAW mode, but the best JPEG mode and the 2nd best JPEG mode.

[RichardtheSane]

I have 256Mb cards on the 10D and large jpeg gives me 100 shots. Never gone lower than that as I try to avoid shooting jpeg anyway.

[Vaio]

I get about 89 on the highest JPEG
and thats because the 256 Lexar USB enabled card is using some of it for the USB stuff I guess...

[PacAce]

fattizzi wrote:
How many pictures do you think can a 256MB card hold with the New Canon 300D SLR? Not RAW mode, but the best JPEG mode and the 2nd best JPEG mode.

According to the Rebel Digital/300D manual, you can get a max of 38 images at the highest resolution and 65 images at the next highest resolution on a 128 MB card. So it'll probably be twice that for a 256 MB card.

[CyberDyneSystems]

vaio wrote:
I get about 89 on the highest JPEG
and thats because the 256 Lexar USB enabled card is using some of it for the USB stuff I guess...




The variation in number of images has more to do with ISO settings. I don't think "USB enabled" takes up any room.

[John_T]

If you have a Lexar Pro card, there is about 70 MB of rescue software on there, that after downloading to your computer, you can dump and reformat the card and get that space back.

You will also notice that the pic size(MB/kb) varies from pic to pic, so depending on subject, you will get a variance too. You will notice sometimes the remaining shots jump up or down, depending what you have shot, so you can't use any table as an absolute, rather as an average.

I also think it is better not to completely fill a CF card or Microdrive to the last byte, as when getting full the write/read times get longer and the chances of corruption get higher. I always leave some reserve space for this reason. Better to dump a few shots that try to squeeze everything on.