Who is planning on shooting in "DX" mode on D800?

Started Mar 22, 2012 | Discussion thread
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i don't understand why all this complaining about hard drive space
In reply to Waltersmatthews, Mar 22, 2012

When the D2X, with 20MB RAW files, was released in 2005, the largest hard drive was 500GB (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives ).

We are now in 2012 where 4TB (4000GB) hard drives are available. That's 8x the size from 2005. The D800 RAW files are only 3-4x the size of the RAW files from the D2X...so we should be able to fit twice the number of RAW files today onto 1 hard drive compared to 2005 during the D2X era.

I don't remember all this grumbling about RAW files being too big and hard drives being too small in 2005.

Am I missing something?

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