explanade
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
- Joined
- May 10, 2008
- Messages
- 7,457
Simply because 45mpx is pretty high and takes up a lot of space. Holiday snaps do not need to be such high resolution. I am thinking with respect to the Canon EOS R5 specifically.
$4000 camera for snapshots?
Blow that dough!
Usually the newer full frame sensor cameras also have crop mode, that is it simulates what a cropped sensor would take and it's like half or less the resolution.
But as posted above, you can have it save in JPEG, which will be much smaller file size. Or you could have it save both a RAW and a JPEG file for each shot. Then keep the one you want.
But if you're buying a $4000 full frame camera, it's just a fact of life that you will need more storage. I have a bunch of USB drives now, which are cheap. You can get 4 TB now for about $100 if not a bit less. However, I want to consolidate and will probably get a big RAID storage system or an NAS. That would run $600-1500 to have tens of terabytes of storage.
However, I've been juggling portable USB drives with RAW files, which range from 25 MB to 50 MB. I have a Nikon Z7 which is 46 Megapixels. I only save RAW files from it which are about 50 MB. I have them on a 4 TB USB drive which I paid about 100 for. Still not full but getting there.
Last edited: