Memory card capacity - Need your help!

[LeicaDreamer]

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Hello everyone,

I am preparing my equipment for a photographic trip – I will spend 2 weeks long in Bhutan beginning of November!

I will travel with my Leica Q2 Reporter and normally shoot in S-JPG and DNG to have a JPG copy in black and white

and the photo in DNG to be able to use it at its best in post-production.

Could you kindly tell me how many photos I can save in a 128 MB SD?

I'm counting how many cards I have to carry but I've never been a phenomenon in mathematics!:-)

Thank you in advance for sharing your experience and I apologize if the question may be stupid for someone!

Gino

[Guest]

Hi,

I guess you mean 128 GB and not 128 MB, otherwise the answer is 1 photo

I have a 64 GB SD and the Q2 estimates 493 photos for L-JPG+DNG and 569 photos for S-JPG+DNG, So if you double that figure you will be getting around 1000 photos

[ianforber]

 Bhutan. A place I’ve always wanted to visit. If this is going to be somewhere you will never visit again, take more memory cards than you think you’ll need - my Q2 doesn’t need the latest 300 Mb/s cards and is quite happy with 170 Mb/s cards which are pretty cheap these days. After all, you don’t want to run out of space just as a yeti comes out!

[PaulJohn]

On 10/14/2022 at 10:17 PM, ianforber said:

 Bhutan. A place I’ve always wanted to visit. If this is going to be somewhere you will never visit again, take more memory cards than you think you’ll need - my Q2 doesn’t need the latest 300 Mb/s cards and is quite happy with 170 Mb/s cards which are pretty cheap these days. After all, you don’t want to run out of space just as a yeti comes out!

I recently tried to turn off my Q2 and it would not turn off. I was about to pop the battery when I realised it was still writing to my slow card. The buffer seems big enough for my needs so unless I ever need to switch off in a hurry I agree I don’t need 300Mb/s either.  

[Farrell Gallery]

Mine is around 640 photos for DNG, 64 GB 300MB/s...you can always use Google Drive if you need to dump your card or bring an external drive. I'd recommend redundancy.