chris_letts Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 <p>Just about to buy a Nikon S9700 for my wife, but cannot anywhere find out what size the images are on file.</p><p>Can anyone advise?<br>For example a maximum resolution jpeg, so I can figure out what size SDHC card(s) to get.</p><p>Thanks</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodeo_joe1 Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 <p>JPEG file sizes differ depending on the image content Chris. Image sizes for a 16 megapixel camera are going to be in the range of 7 to 10 megabytes each at minimum JPEG compression. But I'd buy cards on the best size-to-price ratio you can find rather than having a fixed number of pictures in mind. Large capacity cards come at a premium price, while tiny capacity cards aren't too practical and don't offer good value. I'd say anything in the 8 to 32GB range will give you a good performance-to-cost ratio at the moment, as well as having ample image capacity.</p> <p>The manual for the camera is downloadable from here: http://crossgate.nikonimglib.com/dsd_redirect/redirect.do?P=fZkhE53&R=L0mU995&L=RXbrO00&O=osGCm00<br /> and shows that the S9700 can take SDXC cards of 64GB or more. That's probably overkill for a little snapshot camera, and in any case using large cards tends to make you lazy about transferring images to your computer for backup. Smaller cards actually make you backup your precious pictures more frequently, which can't be a bad thing. So IMHO it's better to carry a few modest capacity cards than one big one.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted December 12, 2014 Share Posted December 12, 2014 <p>In these days, even 32G SD cards are very affordable, e.g. http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1077090-REG/sandisk_sdsdun_032g_g46_ultra_sd_32gd_card.html<br> Make sure that it is at least class 10 (10 with a circle around it) so that it can capture video just fine.</p> <p>I would get at least 32G precisely because you won't be forced to upload your images all the time. If you are concerned about your images, do have a disciplined workflow and upload at the end of the day whenever you have captured images. However, you are much safer to have an extra copy of the images, on the card and inside your camera. If you use very small-capacity cards, you will be juggling several cards and since SD are physically small, your risk of losing some cards is much higher. In 12 years using digital cameras, I have never lost any CF cards but have lost several SD in merely 4 years. They are easy to misplace.</p> <p>If you have concerns about the rare card failure, get two SD cards so that you have at least one second spare.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_letts Posted December 12, 2014 Author Share Posted December 12, 2014 <p>thanks for the info - I'll go for 16 GB Lexar pro cards.. (about a tenner each)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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