What Size Memory Stick...

[trt]

would I need for about 1,000 photos for a laptop?

Ta in advance

[Zacs-Master]

What size are the pictures?

[trt]

Hi Zacs, Its for my daughters L/T and cant tell you really but they take the full size of the 15'' screen if that helps.

[Buenchico]

Z-M has asked an important question.

If you save pictures from websites to your hard drive, they're commonly between about 0.05Mb and 0.2Mb in size. (However they could be far larger if the site designer forgot to optimise them before putting them online). My 14Mp camera takes pictures, using my normal settings, that are around 0.7Mb in size but changing the settings to the biggest image size (and using the lowest compression) would take them to around 7Mb each.

So, if you wanted to store 1000 7Mb pictures you'd need 7Gb of storage capacity which, in practice, means using an 8Gb memory stick. However, since most amateur photographers don't use the maximum image sizes available from their cameras (which is pointless anyway, unless you want to make really big prints from them) most people could get away with using, say, a 2Gb stick.

[Buenchico]

If you've already got some of the pictures available somewhere, right-click on one of them and select 'Properties' to see the file size. (Repeat with a few more to see if there's much variation).

[jno]

if you have access to the photos, in My Pictures, you could try hovering the cursor over one of them; it should tell you what size it is. (And do the same with another couple of photos to check.) Then turn the MB into GB, as Chris says: if the pictures are about 1MB then a 1GB stick will do the job - though I'd get a bigger one anyway just to be on the safe side.

[jno]

... as Chris has now said.

[bazwillrun]

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/1424685.htm
one of many


memory sticks are dirt cheap, get an 8GB and then youre covered and some.

you can get a decent 8GB for around £5

[trt]

Thanks folks, gone for a 32gb so she will have plenty of room at only £12.00.