Author Topic: SD card size?  (Read 7057 times)

jasonfish

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SD card size?
« on: September 04, 2017, 11:47:38 AM »
I've read up on SD speeds and have narrowed down my choices. But how big are the files saved to the card? How much space is needed for, say, one 8 second clip at max resolution? Max frame rate? Should I be looking for 8gb cards? 64? 128?

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Re: SD card size?
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2017, 05:28:50 PM »

I found this calculator, there are others on web
https://www.lambertinstruments.com/hs-calculator/

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Re: SD card size?
« Reply #2 on: September 05, 2017, 12:16:55 AM »
The biggest size file I've made sofar, using the full 4s buffer of my camera and one of the high framerates is about 300Mb.
But normally you mark in/out just the event you care about ad get a few seconds, or fraction of a second realtime. It also takes ages to write the full buffer.
So typically files end up 30-130Mb.