I typically get about 305 shots listed as available on my D700 on a Lexar 300x UDMA 8GB card. My 5DmkII shows somewhere in the high 280s for the same cards. Given the resolution difference, is the D700 inefficient or is the 5DmkII seriously efficient? Both are set to RAW and their lowest base ISO speeds, with normal high ISO NR, no long exposure NR and no active D.

I noticed that today and it seemed like a huge disparity. Are you seeing the same numbers from other D700s?

I am getting approx 200 images per SanDisk Extreme III 4gb,

I guess 8gb has to be double that amount, (400)

Shooting Raw, appears to be fairly consistent,

Regards,
Gary

On a newly formatted 4gb card I get 204 shown as the available shots in Raw. However I usually get about 280-290 on a card. Nikon cameras are normally conservative with displaying the number of avaiable shots. It may be that your 5DmkII shows a number closer to what is avaiable.

Stephen

D700 - D80
F4s for B&W film
Assorted lenses

Looks as though you guys are on 12-bit lossless which explains your higher shot count.

Sorry, did not think of that! Your right, yes, 12 bit!

14 bit drops down to 155

Regards,
Gary

I just finished shooting my lexar 8gb 300x card the other day on my d300 and the lcd shows around 400 after formatting, but I got 655 downloaded on my computer. most were around 10-11mb. guess it depends on the scene.

Thanks for sharing,

Jeff

I RTFM, and TFM said 100 12-bit per 2GB card, 77 for 14-bit lossless. I think comparing the counters is more or less of no use, since the conservative counting usually gets you many more than you think.

Thanks guys

On a "just-formatted" SanDisk Extreme IV 8 Gb card in my D700, using 14 bit non-compressed NEF, the LCD reads a 310 image capacity. It will take more than that number, but not all that many more. 12 bit non-compressed = 403.

Walter

f/8 and be there?...but I'm moving as fast as I can...I'm up to f/4 already!

Just filled 2 x Sandisc III 8Gb Cards using 12 bit lossless compressed RAW - Just over 700 on each.

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The 305 number displayed is conservative. I typically get ~500 images on a SanDisk Extreme IV 8 GB collecting Raw 14 bit lossless compressed. It really depends on the complexity of the images. Lots of random features and wide light levels take up more space than blue skys with little features.

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