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new R6 user: why are my photos only 6MB instead of 20MB?

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Ky-Anne New Member • Posts: 4
new R6 user: why are my photos only 6MB instead of 20MB?

Image Quality setting is L, which is says should be "20M 5472 x 3648" - I assume this means 20MB as that's the what camera is advertised to do.

Yet in the 800+ photos I have just taken the largest is 16MB, the smallest is under 4MB. The great majority are less than 10MB.

I take photographs of birds mostly so by the time I crop them post-processing I have pretty small image sizes. This is very disappointing.

I have been shooting in in JPEG and considered doing RAW but both say the image will be "20M 5472 x 3648"

Crop setting is Full Frame

Lens is Canon 100-400mm

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Canon EOS R6
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