What size for raw please?

Certainly not my way! The first was the Write Protect slider disappeared and the second was the plastic separators between the contacts - it still worked but I was not going to risk it in the camera.

no I mean that I often see it claimed 3rd party batteries are more likely to go wrong. The scaremongering of that including catching fire inside that camera is not an uncommon scare tactic and is usually mentioned in almost every 3rd battery thread.

yes it's also commonly, even more so, claimed that they are less likely to perform to Pentax specification. This is not so much a scare tactic and in some cases it might be true. however given the 3rd party batteries are £5 to £6 compared to £55 for pentax versions then even if if the battery performs to only 50% of the Pentax version


Aside from the high likelyhood that the manufacturer of Pentax batteries will also be making batteries for 2rd party distribute so in many cases they will be exactly the same, I'm nto srue there's any accurate evidenceto show that.

I may have lucky put personally my 3rd party batteries have worked just as well as the Pentax labeled ones.

This has gone so far off topic as to be come slightly unhelpful to the OP I suspect.

So how is Aura getting on with her RAW files? Any thoughts yet?

Sorry I forgot to click on notification (stupid me) Do you think I better stick to Jpeg for now?

I wondered where you'd gone!

Might be an idea.

To add to the confusion, apprently RAW comes in diffrent file sizes

JPEGS come in different file sizes, it's best to stick to the largest one

I quite honestly believe you should stick to jpegs

Been told one of my photo's is in the local paper (Salisbury Journal) I reckon someone else beat me to the post, wall, road, sidewalk...

You can tell us if we should be shooting RAW now

My dad told me but he gets confused, so it might be someone else.

RAW file sizes can vary depending upon the resolution of the sensor and the ISO used.

It depends on the subject matter to an extent also I think - presumably more densely detailed scenes would require more data to be stored? This variation is only small though.

Interestingly, looking through some recent files, I see that on the K7 most DNGs are coming about at about 13-14mb ..... and the same shots camera JPEGs are 10mb - not a big difference really in terms of file management and storage.

Someone else took the photo in the paper, but I took it first but I didn't think about sending it in. Do you think they will accept mine?

I'm a bit dissapointed that I have missed out yet again

I doubt very much if they will purchase yours now, I'm afraid

Oh well never mind.