Deliberate1 Posted January 1, 2018 Share #1 Posted January 1, 2018 Advertisement (gone after registration) Friends, my silver Q is due in this week. I am looking to use San Disk 64gb Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-1 cards. Can someone kindly advise how many images, DNG only, can be stored on such a card. And is there a compression capacity with the Q? Planning for a trip and do not want to be caught short. Many thanks. David Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Leica Guy Posted January 2, 2018 Share #2 Posted January 2, 2018 I only have a single SanDisk Extreme Pro 32GB card. I get 696 images on that card. I’d assume you’d get double that on a 64GB card. So far I’ve steered away from larger than 32GB cards for not wanting so many images on one card. Frankly 696 is a huge number. “All the eggs in one basket”! I’m actually more comfortable with 16GB cards given I’m not doing any video. I usually carry about 100GB of cards on a big trip. I was in Europe last summer for a month and took around 6000 images. More than 100GB. Fortunately I never ran out of cards. I did take along a laptop and downloaded everything into LR so I had two copies most of the time. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deliberate1 Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share #3 Posted January 2, 2018 I usually carry about 100GB of cards on a big trip. I was in Europe last summer for a month and took around 6000 images. More than 100GB. Fortunately I never ran out of cards. I got to thinking that this would amount to the equivalent of 167 rolls of 35mm film. Or even more extraordinary, 500 rolls of MF. On but a few wafer thin, postage stamp sized chips. Pure alchemy. Best, David Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leica Guy Posted January 2, 2018 Share #4 Posted January 2, 2018 It is magic. Embarrassing actually to take that many images. Maybe next time I’ll move it to purely manual focus and slow down. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deliberate1 Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share #5 Posted January 2, 2018 It is magic. Embarrassing actually to take that many images. Maybe next time I’ll move it to purely manual focus and slow down. Cheers, mate. While I have largely given up film, though not entirely so, I still shoot rather parsimoniously. As if still buying film and processing. But I do acknowledge the lure of what is essentially limitless capture capacity. I once referred to a dear friend as a "digital slut" for his promiscuous shooting habits. I was all film at the time. And more than a bit snobbish. I think I now owe him an apology. Best, D Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
beez Posted January 2, 2018 Share #6 Posted January 2, 2018 I use the 64GB Sandisk extreme pro cards for all my cameras. With the Q, it tells me I have 1,000 (in the viewfinder is says "1k") DNG only frames to shoot. There is no RAW (DNG) compression on the Q. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deliberate1 Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share #7 Posted January 2, 2018 Advertisement (gone after registration) I use the 64GB Sandisk extreme pro cards for all my cameras. With the Q, it tells me I have 1,000 (in the viewfinder is says "1k") DNG only frames to shoot. There is no RAW (DNG) compression on the Q. Interesting that poster above gets 696 images from a 32gb card, and your camera, at 1000 images, gives you significantly fewer than half that number from a card with twice the capacity. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bianco Posted January 2, 2018 Share #8 Posted January 2, 2018 i use a 128GB sandisk card, it shows "2K" on the lower right corner. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 2, 2018 Share #9 Posted January 2, 2018 Regardless, I'd strongly urge you to bring at least two cards -- You may end up shooting far more than you expect. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deliberate1 Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share #10 Posted January 2, 2018 Regardless, I'd strongly urge you to bring at least two cards -- You may end up shooting far more than you expect. Agreed. I certainly hope to. I wonder if the difference experiences in card capacity has to do with the file capture setting - whether DNG+jpg or DNG only. Am I right that an update made DNG-only possible? D Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
beez Posted January 2, 2018 Share #11 Posted January 2, 2018 (edited) Agreed. I certainly hope to. I wonder if the difference experiences in card capacity has to do with the file capture setting - whether DNG+jpg or DNG only. Am I right that an update made DNG-only possible? D The 2.0 firmware update brought with it the "DNG only" setting. I shoot only DNGs with the Q. When you have an empty card with a capacity over 32GB in the slot, that number is an estimate. As the card fills up, the count gets more accurate. Edited January 2, 2018 by beez 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deliberate1 Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share #12 Posted January 2, 2018 The 2.0 firmware update brought with it the "DNG only" setting. I shoot only DNGs with the Q. When you have an empty card with a capacity over 32GB in the slot, that number is an estimate. As the card fills up, the count gets more accurate. If the card does not see capacity as fixed number, is it because the size of a particular file could vary from shot to shot? Very interesting. D Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Chef Posted January 2, 2018 Share #13 Posted January 2, 2018 I asked on another sub forum what speed of card were you all using? I seem to find on my little 109 that it feels slow to write to the card, leaving the EVF frozen for a couple of seconds. I’m shooting RAW and JPEG. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuny Posted January 2, 2018 Share #14 Posted January 2, 2018 In my fist outing with my Q, with a 2 GB card, shooting finest jpeg only I got 48 photos. I've since bought bigger cards, but have barely started to fill the first one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deliberate1 Posted January 2, 2018 Author Share #15 Posted January 2, 2018 In my fist outing with my Q, with a 2 GB card, shooting finest jpeg only I got 48 photos. I've since bought bigger cards, but have barely started to fill the first one. I remember when a 1 gb card cost $100. Amazing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marchyman Posted January 2, 2018 Share #16 Posted January 2, 2018 Interesting that poster above gets 696 images from a 32gb card, and your camera, at 1000 images, gives you significantly fewer than half that number from a card with twice the capacity. I think you may be expecting too much precision. It is possible that there a limited number of digits to show shots remaining. If so the camera would start rounding the estimate as they run out of digits. If only three digits were available, for example, the camera might display 999, then 1K for everything up to 1,999 images. The difference would be that the 1K figure would not change to 999 until you'd taken many shots. I don't have a memory card large enough to test that. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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