Memory card question?

Question

does anyone know how many pictures a 1Gb memory card, can take with a 5.0 mega-pixel camera?

Answer 1

Look at the bottom of the source link and you will see information for 512 Mb with different photo situations.  You would double this for 1GB.

Each picture takes is a little different depending on the content.

The quality settings are SuperFine (SF) (the better), Fine (F) and Normal (N).

The resolutions are:

3,264 x 2,448 (Large); 2,592 x 1,944 (Medium 1); 2,048 x 1,536 (Medium 2); 1,600 x 1,200 (Medium 3/Date Stamp); 640 x 480 (Small); 3,264 x 1,832 (Wide screen)

with a 512 MB card you can take (on the average):

Large: 3,264 x 2,448

(SF) 139 (F) 231 (N) 479

Wide screen: 3,264 x 1,832

(SF) 183 (F) 307 (N) 642

Medium1: 2,592 x 1,944

(SF) 190 (F) 339 (N) 671

Medium2: 2,048 x 1,536

(SF) 295 (F) 529 (N) 1,041

Medium3: 1,600 x 1,200

(SF) 471 (F) 839 (N) 1,590

Small : 640 x 480

(SF) 1,777 (F) 2,747 (N) 4,317

These of course are estimates. If your scenes have a lot of sharp details then the pictures can occupy a little more. On the other side, if you only photograph sunsets or white walls, then you can fit more photo... :-)

For the 2Gb card, you can just take the values above for the 512Mb and you multiply roughly by 4.

So for example, at the maximum resolution, at the best quality, you can save approx. 139 x 4 = 556 photos on the 2Gb card.

Answer 2

the manual should have a chart

Answer 3

That depends entirely on the quality of the pictures you take.  You can set high, low or medium quality on most cameras.  The higher the quality, the more space that picture will take up.  Even at full resolution, you should be able to hold a good chunk.