Nikon D100 - Manual (Page 55)

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Taking Photographs—Image Quality and Size
Image Quality and Size
Making Effective Use of Memory
Together, image quality and size determine how much space each photo-
graph occupies on the memory card. This in turn determines the total num-
ber of photographs that can be stored. For an understanding of how the
various size and quality options affect the number of images that can be
stored, view the following table, which shows the approximate number of
images that can be stored on a 96 MB card at different combinations of qual-
ity and size.
* All figures are approximate.
† Approximate time needed to record all images once the memory buffer has filled.
Actual time required varies with make of card.
** When opened in Nikon View 5 or Nikon Capture 3, NEF images are 3,008
×
2,000
pixels in size.
†† File size of compressed NEF (RAW) images is approximately fifty to sixty percent of
uncompressed NEF images.
*** Number of exposures remaining shown in control and viewfinder is the same as in
the case of uncompressed NEF (RAW) images. The actual number of images that
can be stored on the memory card is higher than shown.
Comp. NEF (compressed)
Medium (2,240
×
1,488)
Small (1,504
×
1,000)
Large (3,008
×
2,000)
Medium (2,240
×
1,488)
Small (1,504
×
1,000)
Fine
JPEG
Large (3,008
×
2,000)
Medium (2,240
×
1,488)
Small (1,504
×
1000)
Normal
Large (3,008
×
2,000)
Basic Medium (2,240
×
1,488)
Small (1,504
×
1,000)
NEF **
(Raw)
Large (3,008
×
2,000)
RGB-
TIFF
NEF (Raw) (uncompressed)
File
size *
17.3 MB
††
9.5 MB
4.3 MB
2.9 MB
1.6 MB
770 KB
1.5 MB
850 KB
410 KB
770 KB
440 KB
220 KB
9.4 MB
No. of
images *
***
9
20
28
50
106
55
97
198
106
181
349
9
5
66 s (4 frames)
Recording
time †
178 s (4 frames)
147 s (6 frames)
67 s (6 frames)
30 s (6 frames)
18 s (6 frames)
9 s (6 frames)
21 s (6 frames)
11 s (6 frames)
6 s (6 frames)
10 s (6 frames)
8 s (6 frames)
5 s (6 frames)
217 s (5 frames)