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Old 22-12-2008, 08:51 PM
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Hey Troy.

Yes. Giving this more thought it seems logical.

This is even further supported by the fact there's an option in one of the menus for shooting without the CF card.

I assume this means images are stored temporarily in an on-board buffer/cache - the same place where preview images are stored/generated. I'm guessing this is not at the same resolution as what would be stored on the CF card as a RAW or large JPEG.

So, the upshot of this is, the image we see in preview on the LCD screen after we take a shot is not the same quality of data which gets sent to a CF card when it's being used.

Coupled with this is the fact the LCD preview screen is, as RB has pointed out, not hi res.

It's starting to make sense to me.
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