digital camera memory question

white2098 · Post by **white2098** » Thu May 01, 2008 11:50 pm

hey i got a kodak easyshare v1253 camera a while back and i know it has 32mb of memory, but i don't know what that means for how many pictures it can hold. does anybody know anything about this kind of stuff?

here's a good page about the camera if it helps at all,

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid ... -R&cat=CAM

Post by **Phineus** » Thu May 01, 2008 11:59 pm

> 32 MB internal memory

That means you have 32 megs and you don't need an additional memory card. Adding a memory card will expand what you can save. Um, but I can't see anything on that page about the type of card it uses, or even if it allows one, which I can't believe it wouldn't.

> 12 Mega Pixels

You can take "huge" pictures.

To answer your question, I think 32 megs can take about 50 shots at 800x600. Fewer shots if you go higher, and more if you use 640x480.

white2098 · Post by **white2098** » Fri May 02, 2008 12:25 am

yeah i've had the camera for a while and i love it, but i was just wondering about the picture capacity. 50 is a bit of a disappointment because i wanted to take tons of pictures of salinas. i can always just take multiple trips out there i guess.

12 mega pixels = very big pictures for sure, 30x40 inches to be precise and the HD quality is amazing. it's a great camera and i'd recommend it to anyone.

thanks for the help as always phin

Drive2Survive · Post by **Drive2Survive** » Fri May 02, 2008 12:46 am

12MP means it takes photos up to 12-megapixels (pictures composed of 12 million pixels). For example my mum's (few-years-old) Kodak is a 4MP camera, and it takes photos with dimensions of 2304 x 1728 pixels. 2304 x 1728 = 3,981,312 = ~4million pixels.
My newer Ricoh Caplio camera is 7MP, and takes photos up to 3072 x 2304 = 7,077,888 pixels.
More MP = more detail that can be captured in the photo but also more space needed to store the image.

How many photos you can fit on 32MB will depend on your shooting settings. My Ricoh lets me shoot smaller pictures using less than the full 7MP if I want (5MP, 3MP, 1MP and 640x480) and two different quality settings. It saves the pictures in JPEG, which is a compressed format (JPEG is the universal default but some cameras let you save in other formats that may take more space). On the very highest setting (7MP "fine" i.e. low compression), pictures come in at about 2.5 megabytes each, so on 32MB I would only fit about 12. However if I knock back to 7MP "normal", pictures are only about 1.4MB, then I could fit about 22 pictures on 32MB of memory. At 3MP "normal" pictures were only about 660KB, so I would fit about 48 on 32MB.

It's hard to say how many you'll be able to save since I don't know how big your photos may come out at, since the size will depend on the level of JPEG compression that that the camera uses. I would guess though that for a full 12MP image it may take 3MB or more of space, so you might fit less than 12 on the internal memory.

Phineus wrote:I can't see anything on that page about the type of card it uses

From the page: "SD/MMC Expansion card slot"

You can load a "SecureDigital" memory card into the camera, which is a standard format of card for cameras. Most cameras are really designed to work off a memory card - the internal memory doesn't count for anything. These days you can get SD cards of capacities of 1GB, 2GB or more quite cheap (example). I use a 1GB SD card with my Ricoh which can easily store hundreds of photos at the highest setting.

Edit: slow typer [(-:]

white2098 · Post by **white2098** » Fri May 02, 2008 12:56 am

wow, i was messing around with the camera and realized my memory card holds over 700 pictures. i forgot it came with a memory card and the camera even has a picture counter on it starting from 702.

sorry for waisting anybodies time, stupid of me not to look more before asking questions.

Post by **Phineus** » Fri May 02, 2008 1:09 am

No waste of time. If it took this to figure it out, then what harm.

FWIW, mine has a count down on it too.

white2098 · Post by **white2098** » Fri May 02, 2008 1:15 am

yeah, thanks for the help again guys much appreciated!

Drive2Survive · Post by **Drive2Survive** » Sat May 03, 2008 3:33 am

Hey white, now I have a question for you...

If you have a Kodak camera, have you been using the Kodak Easyshare software for organising your photo albums? My mum's camera came bundled with it, and we used it for quite a while but I've found it to be rather crash-happy (it just bombs out every time you try to open certain albums). If you use it (we seem to have version 4.0.0.130), has your experience with it been the same or do you use something else (I'm about to chuck it for Picasa2)?...

Cale · Post by **Cale** » Sat May 03, 2008 7:23 am

I just use regular old My Computer. I'm comfortable enough with Windows that it's easy for me, although I can't batch-edit files.

For web, though, I've been happy with Picasa's online method, and it allows hotlinking of pics.
http://picasaweb.google.com/caleputnam

white2098 · Post by **white2098** » Sat May 03, 2008 12:31 pm

D2S, yeah i use it to get pictures loaded onto my computer. after that though, i just send it all to my pictures folder because i also have a problem with easyshare freezing and not responding.

what works best for me is, transfer the pictures from the camera to a folder where you used to store pictures and don't even bother with easyshare. you could also use windows media center.

Drive2Survive · Post by **Drive2Survive** » Mon May 05, 2008 10:33 am

Yeah, I don't have a problem with navigating folders and shifting files around myself, but I'd have to re-train the "olds" to do it any other way ;)
The Kodak was our first digital camera so we used the Easyshare software from the start, so it's all that mum and dad are used to for downloading and viewing photos from the camera on the computer. For credit, the software is well designed (by contrast, the software that came with my Ricoh is pretty dreadful) and easy to use... till something goes wrong behind the scenes and Easyshare decides it would rather crashinate all the time. I was just wondering if we're the only ones who seem to have this trouble with it - I've tried troubleshooting and updates from Kodak, but didn't get anywhere...

Picasa2 seems to do everything as well as Easyshare and is much more robust, so I'll probably switch to that.

white2098 · Post by **white2098** » Mon May 05, 2008 1:41 pm

yeah, i can understand that problem haha. my parents can't use a computer for their lives.

i personally never used the program enough to truthfully answer your question, but yeah whatever works best for you. [(-:] <that face rules all

ShadowPrincess · Post by **ShadowPrincess** » Tue May 06, 2008 3:19 am

Used the kodak easy share software here too D2S and never had a problem with it. Never had it crash on me yet... touch wood lol
Was on XP Pro if that makes any difference at all.

Drive2Survive · Post by **Drive2Survive** » Wed May 07, 2008 4:55 am

Well the problem I've been having with Easyshare is intermittent. I think its some kind of corruption of the album database. Generally it works fine, until as I say something behind the scenes goes wrong while viewing an album and it crashes. Once it starts crashing in a particular album it doesn't stop.

I just noticed that the current version of Easyshare for download on the Kodak website is 6.4, which is a good way along from the 4.0 we've got... might be worth another download to try it out.

ShadowPrincess · Post by **ShadowPrincess** » Wed May 07, 2008 5:02 am

Oh, my software version i s 1.4

Malibu350 · Post by **Malibu350** » Wed May 07, 2008 9:06 am

I have an old Kodak which I long since abandoned it's default file transfer gui because it would crash regularly. I just pull the memory card out, plug it into a usb card reader and wallah! done done and done. :)

white2098 · Post by **white2098** » Wed May 07, 2008 12:53 pm

the biggest problem i ever get is that sometimes easyshare doesn't read my camera and none of the pictures show up until i log out and log back in.

Drive2Survive · Post by **Drive2Survive** » Thu May 08, 2008 8:13 am

ShadowPrincess wrote:Oh, my software version i s 1.4

I wonder then if all those subsequent versions must be a case of them breaking something that didn't need fixing ;)

And now I remember why I didn't get anywhere with trying updated versions... they use a bloody web installer.
I hate those things

ShadowPrincess · Post by **ShadowPrincess** » Thu May 08, 2008 9:18 am

Seems like they just dont make things like they used to.

Malibu350 · Post by **Malibu350** » Tue May 13, 2008 3:57 pm

A friend of mine took this short video clip for me last weekend in San Diego CA with his Cannon PowerShot SD1000.

M350.avi

If you've ever wondered where the name Malibu350 came from well that's it, just a old car... I think the quality came out nice, too short but pretty nice for a $200 camera.