Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wonder why your 18 mp DNGs from the M9 are 34.7 MB when my 10 mp DNGs from the M8 are around 10-11 MB, also on the card. Are you by any chance shooting DNG+JPG? Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Nov 8, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > If you are shooting uncompressed (14 bit) 18mp DNGs the files are > 34.7MB > each on the card. Interestingly, importing them with LR3 will > losslessly > compress those (both the original and second copy) to ~18MB on your > computer/external drive. > I use all 4GB cards on the M8 as my choice and found the almost 400 > frames > per card practical with the M8 when travelling and shooting a lot. I > think > that 16GB cards will become the new 4GB for me. > Keep in mind that you will need to change the battery periodically > (expected > 400~500 exposures dependant on your style), so in my opinion it is > better to > align the card change with that operation if you have a heavy shooting > schedule. For cost and risk reasons also, in my opinion 16GB is the > best > choice. For less demandig situations, around 90 frames on a 4GB > card is > pretty useful anyway. I think that 32GB is the highest supported in > the SDHC > standard. Someone will correct me if that's out of date. Write > speeds may > see some improvements when firmware updates become available in the > future. > 2009/11/8 Bryan Willman <bryanwi at bryanwi.com> > >> I have never had a card fail. I have had computers crash and nearly >> lose data after cards are off loaded. I often have a hard time >> keeping >> track of too many small things. >> >> So my theory is to have, say, 4 very large cards. (at least 16gb, >> but >> 64gb if the M9 works with them.) Then, on a long trip (say 2 >> weeks in >> Europe), you shoot quite freely, but NEVER reuse/reformat a card. >> After off loading, don't reformat the cards until your various backup >> processes are confirmed to have worked. >> >> So one wants to carry enough cards to cover all of the shooting for >> any >> trip without needing to delete anything from a card. (Copy to >> disk if >> possible just to have a backup) Digital cameras -> lots of >> exposures >> (because we can.) Rather than carrying 16 by 16gb cards, would >> rather >> carry 4 64gb cards. >> >> The reason I raise the question is that my M8 originally couldn't >> cope >> with SDHC cards, and was effectively limited to 2GB. Does the M9 >> have >> such a disease? Will it work reliably with 64gb cards? >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lug-bounces+bryanwi=bryanwi.com at leica-users.org >> [mailto:lug-bounces+bryanwi <lug-bounces%2Bbryanwi>=bryanwi.com@ >> leica-users.org] On Behalf Of >> Frank Filippone >> Sent: 2009-Nov-07 4:44 PM >> To: 'Leica Users Group' >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Anybody with an actual M9 have experience with >> largefast cards? >> >> There are 2 ways to go.. get the biggest card you can, or get a >> bunch of >> smaller ones.... >> >> Advantage to the big card: It holds more. At 18MB per snap, there >> are >> roughly 3200 full RAW images you can store on a 64GB card.....But it >> takes >> longer to format, delete a bunch, etc. and if it goes south, you >> lose >> it >> all. >> Advantage to the smaller cards..... They hold less. You will not >> be as >> exposed should you lose a card or it goes south on you.....But then >> you >> must >> store a bunch of cards. The cards being pretty tiny, this should >> not be >> as >> big a deal as it was with film. >> >> I am really interested.......Why go big card? What other >> advantages do >> you >> see? >> >> Frank Filippone >> red735i at earthlink.net >> >> >> What I'm really asking is - what is the biggest, fastest, SD card >> that >> is "safe" to buy for the M9? >> >> thx >> bmw >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > Cheers > Geoff > The new LEICA M9 > Passion for perfect pictures. > http://www.m.leica-camera.com > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >