D300 Fewer images after format

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Archive 2009 · D300 Fewer images after format

AlanYoungblood
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p.1 #1 · D300 Fewer images after format

Hi everyone.

I've got a strange one. I have a friend with a D300 who formatted (using the two buttons) a 2GB lexar card and it showed 180 images available. However, he said it usually says 270 images. He says he has not changed the quality settings or anything else. I thought that strange and recommend he send the card back to lexar. Now, he has formatted three other cards in the camera and they all show fewer then normal images available. At this point, I figured it must be setting on the camera because it's extremely unlikely for four cards to fail at virtually the same time in exactly the same way.

I'm not familiar enough with this camera to know if there is a way to inadvertently changed the quality setting to cause this. Is there some other setting besides image quality that can effect card capacity?

Has anyone ever seen this?

Thanks,

Alan

Oct 06, 2009 at 02:22 AM

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p.1 #2 · D300 Fewer images after format

maybe he bumped it over to 14 bit raw.

Oct 06, 2009 at 02:38 AM

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p.1 #3 · D300 Fewer images after format

daskibum wrote:
maybe he bumped it over to 14 bit raw.

+1

or he's perhaps changed the RAW files to uncompressed.

Oct 06, 2009 at 02:41 AM

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p.1 #4 · D300 Fewer images after format

I asked that same question. He says no settings were changed on the camera. Is that easy to do without going into a menu item? Like with a may with button on the back of the camera that could be pressed inadvertently?

Alan

Oct 06, 2009 at 02:54 AM

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p.1 #5 · D300 Fewer images after format

Try the two-button reset. It will reset most settings to factory defaults.

Oct 06, 2009 at 01:37 PM

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p.1 #6 · D300 Fewer images after format

Upgrade your firmware. The older versions are over-conservative with shot estimates on newly formatted cards. After upgrading your counter will be a bit more accurate (and indicate more shots remaining!)

Oct 06, 2009 at 02:24 PM

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p.1 #7 · D300 Fewer images after format

The D300 will say one thing and then change it's mind after shooting. Mine usually says 102 for my 2GB in 14bit RAW loss-less compressed but I can usually get closer to 200 shots when all is said and done.

I wasn't aware that different firmware revisions changed the shot estimates. I didn't notice that when I went from 1.03 to 1.10

He may have accidentally changed the jpeg settings. Since that count seems very high for RAW on 2GB. Make sure he didn't accidentally crank the jpeg size up.

Nov 02, 2009 at 08:39 PM

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p.1 #8 · D300 Fewer images after format

what about iso? any compressed format + higher iso = larger files

Nov 02, 2009 at 08:45 PM

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