1 Reply Latest reply: Feb 11, 2013 6:04 PM by charles badland RSS

    Why is the memory capacity of a digital camera’s memory card relevant?

    mredwood_creative_flare

      Hi All,

       

      I'm new to all this . I have a question "Why is the memory capcity of a digital camera's memory card relevant?"

       

      Thanks

       

      Maggie

        • 1. Re: Why is the memory capacity of a digital camera’s memory card relevant?
          charles badland Community Member

          Why is the memory capcity of a digital camera's memory card relevant?

          It is not to Photoshop.

          But to the photographer it is extremely relevant.  It determines how many images (influenced by "quality") your camera can hold before running out of room to store pictures. A larger memory capacity for your camera will allow you to take and store more and/or higher quality images.

           

          ("Quality" in this case is determined by  image size- the number of pixels making up the image in your camera and image "compression" -  how much JPG formatting will effect your image.)

           

          (attempted analogy coming... watch out!)

          Think of the camera memory card as a linen closet to store down pillows. A small closet you can store 10 pillows on a shelf. Double the size of the closet and you can store 20 down pillows.

          You also have the choice to stuff the down pillows in small sacks, allowing you to store even more pillows in the closet. The problem is after cramming the down pillows into the small container, they come out battered and not as nice as they were before storage.

           

           

           

          Linen Closet = Memory Card

          Down Pillows = images

          Small sacks to stuff pillows into = JPG compression.

           

          (and to add this this questionable analogy... the better down pillows have more feathers, and take up more room in the linen closet)

           

          Feathers = pixels