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Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] SD cards how much will they hold
From: Mark Brennan <>
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 6:13 PM





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      Thankyou all for your replies. I=C2=A0have been called a ludite befor=
e and its no

wonder! I just turned on the Zoom and indeed the 16gig card should=C2=A0hol=
d about 25

hours AT 44.1/16BIT. I know some of you have vast experience of recording o=
n

location for days/weeks.=C2=A0Just wondering (ball=C2=A0park) how many hour=
s would you

come back with after a week or so on location?



thanks again all.

Mark

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From: vickipowys <>

To: 

Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 8:06:11 PM

Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] SD cards how much will they hold



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It is not too different from what CDs will hold - 700 MB =3D 80 minutes

of audio (44/16).



For a rough estimate I'd be saying, allow 1 GB for every hour you

want to record, and then know that you will still have a handy surplus.



Vicki



On 22/07/2010, at 8:55 AM, Paul Willison wrote:



> Mark, etal...

> Something is wrong there. I have a zoom, and a 16 gig card, and

> set at ANY wav.

> file setting I get far, far less then that.

> I "think" I could get about 24 give or take, at 44.1/16..but not

> terribly more

> then that. I may have some setting completely messed up, but

> didn't think so.

> Mark at the very least if you have your card it should tell you

> at any time

> how much time you have left at that setting. That's what I've

> always gone by,

> and if I try to push the limit, I run out of space.

>

>

>

> ________________________________

> From: Mitch Hill <>

> To: 

> Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 5:20:35 PM

> Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] SD cards how much will they hold

>

>

> At 01:53 PM 7/21/2010 -0700, you wrote:

>> Hi all, I have a 16 gig sd card inside a ZOOM H4N recorder using

>> telinga clip

>> ons. I am heading out for a 10 day trip to the Saguenay National

>> Park on the

>> North Shore of the St Lawrence River, Quebec this weekend. Here's my

>> question..

>> how much at 44.1/16bit wav. file, will the card hold? I am

>> thinking about

>> perhaps purchasing another card before I leave. I hope to record

>> as much as i

>> can.

>> Thoughts appreciated for those of you who have experience being in

>> the field

>> this long,

>

> Hi Mark,

> According to page 147 of the Zoom H4n manual, a 4GB card will hold

> 68 hours

> of recording at 44.1Khz/16bit... Multiply by 4 gives you 272

> hours if the

> manual is correct...

>

> One card should allow you to start recording when you leave home

> and still

> be recording when you get back...

>

> Never tried it myself, I have to come up for air long before then...

>

> --

>

> Thanks,

> Mitch & Shadow...

>

> http://www.4shared.com/dir/UTASxktL/wildlife.html

>

> Shadow's area: http://www.4shared.com/dir/ecfWjyZb/Shadow.html

>


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> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie

> Krause

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