Practice question · Estimate
A 64 gigabyte card holds uncompressed 14-bit raw files of 42 megabytes each. Roughly how many frames does it hold, taking a gigabyte as a thousand megabytes?
Estimate on a scale from 0 frames (0) to 3000 frames (3000).
Hints
- Convert the card size to megabytes first.
- 64000 divided by 42.
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1524 (answers within ±100 count)
Why
About 1,500 frames. 64,000 megabytes divided by 42 gives 1,524. The same card holds around 8,000 high-quality JPEGs, which is the practical reason so many photographers shoot raw plus JPEG: the JPEGs cost almost nothing against the raw files sitting beside them.
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