Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/02

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Subject: [Leica] OT: Fuji X file sizes
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 19:04:09 +0200
References: <F4089BDF-D730-4E7F-903C-55C0C9AF5067@frozenlight.eu> <B164531E-C75C-471E-97E3-B2CBCE1FED14@frozenlight.eu> <AB924DF5-03EA-432E-9CD9-5BB3C93C29BA@icloud.com>

Yes, I am generating 1:1 previews in LR, but I do that also with my Leica 
files.

Nevertheless, as others have also reported large size like me, I am just 
going to shrug my shoulders and get on with taking pictures.

Thanks to everyone for chiming in!

Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
http://www.greatpix.eu
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/

YNWA










On Jul 2, 2014, at 6:07 PM, Gerry Walden wrote:

> Nathan
> 
> I have checked a number of mine and they are all around the 18mb size give 
> or take maybe 0.5mb. I have no idea what is going on there at all. Are you 
> embedding smart preview at full size into the .dng file?
> 
> Gerry
> 
> Gerry Walden
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> On 2 Jul 2014, at 08:28, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:
> 
>> I have only had my Fuji X-Pro 1 for a couple of years, so those of you 
>> who know my indifference towards technical details will not be surprised 
>> that I discovered only this week that the DNG pictures (once converted 
>> from RAW by Lightroom) from the Fuji are huge, 50-60 MB. This compares to 
>> the Leica M8 at around 7-8 MB. I shoot RAW only (i.e. no RAW+JPG, pure 
>> RAW for me thank you), and while I suppose the X-Pro 1 has more 
>> megapixels than the M8, I don't think it is that many more.
>> 
>> Have others who have the Fuji X cameras noticed the same thing?
>> 
>> Good thing storage is cheap these days.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>> 
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>> 
>> YNWA
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Replies: Reply from gwpics at icloud.com (Gerry Walden) ([Leica] OT: Fuji X file sizes)
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